The Dissenters: Named a most anticipated book of 2025 by Harper's Bazaar, Literary Hub, and The Millions

Certain as I’ve never been of anything in the world that you have a right or a duty to know, that you absolutely must know, I sail through the mouth of that river into the sea of her life.

Hallucinatory, erotic, and stylish, The Dissenters is a transcendent portrait of a woman and an era that explodes our ideas of faith, gender roles, freedom, and political agency.

In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space

Amid the ongoing reckoning over America’s history of anti-Black racism, scores of monuments to slaveowners and Confederate soldiers still proudly dot the country’s landscape, while schools and street signs continue to bear the names of segregationists.

With poignant, lyrical prose, cultural commentator Irvin Weathersby confronts the inescapable specter of white supremacy in our open spaces and contemplates what it means to bear witness to sites of lasting racial trauma.

We’re Alone: From hurricanes to political violence, from her days as a new student at a Brooklyn elementary school knowing little English to her account of a shooting hoax at a Miami mall, Danticat has an extraordinary ability to move from the personal to the global and back again. Throughout, literature and art prove to be her reliable companions and guides through both tragedies and triumphs.

“Personal, touching, rich in observations, smart, resonant, vibrant and complex. . . . Danticat once again proves that she is one of contemporary literature's strongest, most graceful voices.”—Gabino Iglesias, NPR.org

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez: The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen‑year‑old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her left eye is instantly recognizable. Could it be Ruthy, after all this time?

“Jiménez brings bravery to the page, and it’s her strong storytelling and humor that make this an outstanding debut.”―Kirkus (starred review)

I’ll Give You a Reason: Explore race, identity, connection, and belonging in the Ironbound, an immigrant neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey.

Annell López’s indelible characters tread the waters of political unrest, sexuality, religion, body image, Blackness, colorism, and gentrification—searching for their identities and a sliver of joy and intimacy. Through each story, a nuanced portrait of the “American Dream” emerges, uplifting the voices of those on its margins."

“Heartfelt stories of a city and the people within it, lovingly pieced together.” —Kirkus Reviews

Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families—the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars—Palestinian immigrants who’ve all found a different welcome in America.

Their various fates and struggles cause their community dynamic to sizzle and sometimes explode: The wealthy Ammar family employs young Maysoon Baladi, whose own family struggles financially, to clean up after their spoiled teenagers.

“Draws a composite portrait of Palestinian American families with sensitivity and humor…breaking down stereotypes and embracing complexity” – The New York Times

The Unsettled: In Mathis’s electrifying novel, Bonaparte is both mythic landscape and spiritual inheritance, and 1980s Philadelphia is its raw, darkly glittering counterpoint. The Unsettled is a spellbinding portrait of two fierce women reckoning with the steep cost of resistance: What legacy will we leave our children? Where can we be free?

“The Unsettled is a powerful, moving novel about the fracture of Black family and the attempts we make to suture it, about the power of our history and futile attempts to sanitize it, about the connection of Black people to the lands they fight so hard to keep, and the government’s attempts to separate them from it.” –Roxane Gay, The Audacity

Stories from the Tenants Downstairs:At Banneker Terrace, everybody knows everybody, or at least knows of them. Longtime tenants’ lives are entangled together in the ups and downs of the day-to-day, for better or for worse.

The neighbors in the unit next door are friends or family, childhood rivals or enterprising business partners. In other words, Harlem is home.

But the rent is due, and the clock of gentrification—never far from anyone’s mind—is ticking louder now than ever.

“A standout achievement…American speech is an underused commodity in contemporary fiction and it’s a joy to find such a vital example of it here.” —The Wall Street Journal

We Are a Haunting follows three generations of a working class family and their inherited ghosts: a story of hope and transformation. 

In 1980’s Brooklyn, Key is enchanted with her world, glowing with her dreams. A charming and tender doula serving the Black women of her East New York neighborhood, she lives, like her mother, among the departed and learns to speak to and for them.

Her untimely death leaves behind her mother Audrey, who is on the verge of losing the public housing apartment they once shared. Colly, Key’s grieving son, soon learns that he too has inherited this sacred gift and begins to slip into the liminal space between the living and the dead on his journey to self-realization.

“An absolute triumph.” —Michael Schaub, NPR

Happiness Falls: “We didn’t call the police right away.” Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing.

Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything—which is why she isn’t initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don’t return from a walk in a nearby park. They must have lost their phone. Or stopped for an errand somewhere.

But by the time Mia’s brother runs through the front door bloody and alone, it becomes clear that the father in this tight-knit family is missing and the only witness is Eugene, who has the rare genetic condition Angelman syndrome and cannot speak.

What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World: Dorothy Lazard grew up in the Bay Area of the 1960s and ’70s, surrounded by an expansive network of family, and hungry for knowledge. Here in her first book, she vividly tells the story of her journey to becoming “queen of my own nerdy domain.” Today Lazard is celebrated for her distinguished career as a librarian and public historian, and in these pages she connects her early intellectual pursuits—including a formative encounter with Alex Haley—to the career that made her a community pillar.

As she traces her trajectory to adulthood, she also explores her personal experiences connected to the Summer of Love, the murder of Emmett Till, the flourishing of the Black Arts Movement, and the redevelopment of Oakland. As she writes with honesty about the tragedies she faced in her youth—including the loss of both parents—Lazard’s memoir remains triumphant, animated by curiosity, careful reflection, and deep enthusiasm for life.

"What You Don’t Know will inspire for its grace, zest and courage." —Joan Frank, San Francisco Chronicle

Yaguareté White: is a lyrical exploration of Paraguayan American identity and what it means to see through a colored whiteness in all of its tangled contradictions.

“What Diego Báez has accomplished in Yaguarté White is nothing short of remarkable. Heartfelt, heartbreaking, and humorous, Báez presents readers a world where it is okay to be curious and vulnerable, where it’s alright to undertake a journey to discover who we are and where we fit in."—Esteban Rodríguez, Tupelo Quarterly

Good Dress: Documents the extravagant beauty and audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, community, class, luxury, materialism, and matrilineage.

A nontraditional coming of age, this collection witnesses a speaker coming into her own autonomy and selfhood as a young adult, reflecting on formative experiences. With care and incandescent energy, the poems engage with memory, time, interiority, and community.

An exuberant celebration of Black abundance. . . . there’s nary a reader that will read Brittany’s poetry and remain untouched.—Publishers Weekly

About Kingston: “Is an ode to Kingston thrums with a candour in lyrical riffs that stun me, leaving me to marvel at the transformative magic of his political call-out and call-in. In such deft clarity he writes “when mountains speak in the sombre tongues about the dead/ i know some politicians got enough sleep…”. Sanatan’s is a new, searing, breakout voice that makes me believe again that poetry’s velocity is one of transformation and political change. I can’t wait to keep reading his work and be changed forever.” – Rajiv Mohabir, author of Whale Aria