In his seventh collection of poems, McCrae depicts an angel plummeing to Earth in his first moments of consciousness. Jim Limber, the adopted mixed-race son of Jefferson Davis, wanders through the afterlife, reckoning with the nuances of America’s racial history, as well as his own. Sometimes I Never Suffered imagines eternity as the culmination of time’s manifold potential to mend.

The Inner Coast collects ten of Hohn's best essays, which feature his physical, historical, and emotional journeys through the American landscape. By turns meditative and comic, adventurous and metaphysical, Hohn writes about the appeal of old tools, the dance between ecology and engineering, the lost art of ice canoeing, and Americans’ complicated love/hate relationship with Thoreau.

Born into the ruins of a Syrian Jewish family that once had it all, David is trapped in an insular religious community. Through adolescence, David tries to suppress his homosexual feelings and fit in, but when pushed to the breaking point, he makes the bold decision to cut off his family, erase his past, and leave everything he knows behind. There's only one problem: who should he be?

Excel is undocumented—and one accidental slip could uproot his entire life. When he takes a journey to a ramshackle desert town called Hello City populated by drifters, old hippies, and washed-up techies—and existing outside the normal constructs of American society—Excel has a chance to forge his own path for the first time. But after so many years of trying to be invisible, who does he want to become?

Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair. “Yiyun Li is one of my favorite writers," says Meg Wolitzer, "and Must I Go is an extraordinary book.”

Through the voices of undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and scorned lovers, Corral writes dramatic portraits of contradiction, survival, and a deeply human, relentless interiority. These poems wonder about being unwanted or renounced. What do we do with unrequited love? Is it with or without it that we would waste away?

In Kenan’s fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker. Kenan riffs on appetites of all kinds, on the eerie persistence of history, and on unstoppable lovers and unexpected salvations.

In Murray's latest collection, ordinary people negotiate tentative paths through wildfire, mass shootings, bureaucratic incompetence, and heedless government policies with vicious impacts on the innocent and helpless.

In a small town in the American South, a church congregation arrives for a service and finds a figure asleep on a pew. The person is genderless and racially ambiguous and refuses to speak. As days pass, the void around their presence begins to unnerve the community, whose generosity erodes into menace. “The people of this community are [...] brilliantly rendered by their wise maker, Catherine Lacey.” - Rachel Kushner

Fifteen-year-old Ricky lives in Aspiring, but he's stuck in a loop: student, uncommitted basketballer, and puzzled son, burdened by his family's sadness. And who's the weird guy in town with a chauffeur and half a Cadillac? What about the bits of story that invade his head? Uncertain what's real — and who he is — Ricky can't stop sifting for clues.