***NATIONAL BESTSELLER**WINNER OF THE 2023 WRITER'S TRUST ATWOOD GIBSON PRIZE*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL'S AWARD FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD IN DEBUT FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL FICTION AWARDThe fates of two unforgettabl...

WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARDCOSMOPOLITAN'S 10 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2023'Fresh and propulsive . . . a veneration of those whose tales are often forgotten' New York Times'A mesmerizing, lyrical testament to the power of storytelling' Atwood Gibson Writer's Trust ...

***WINNER OF THE 2023 WRITER'S TRUST ATWOOD GIBSON PRIZE*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL'S AWARD FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD IN DEBUT FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL FICTION AWARDThe fates of two unforgettable women—one just beginning a...

***NATIONAL BESTSELLER**WINNER OF THE 2023 WRITER'S TRUST ATWOOD GIBSON PRIZE*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL'S AWARD FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD IN DEBUT FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL FICTION AWARDThe fates of two unforgettabl...

***NATIONAL BESTSELLER**WINNER OF THE 2023 WRITER'S TRUST ATWOOD GIBSON PRIZE*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL'S AWARD FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD IN DEBUT FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL FICTION AWARDThe fates of two unforgettabl...

Freedom, you can't get and bury, and keep it and keep it so it won't ever go away.No, child.You got to swing your freedom like a club.In 1859, in a small town jail, deep in the forests of Canada, an elderly woman sits behind bars. She came to Dunmore via the Underground Railroad to escape enslavement, but an American bounty hunter tracked her down. Now she's in jail for killing him.

Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in the wake of the Great Migration. Braiding fact and fiction, it is a remarkable, character-rich tour de force exploring the ties that bind three generations.In 1916, Celia Coleman and Lucy Grimes flee the racism and poverty of their homes in the post–Civil War South for the “Promised Land” of the North. But soon they learn that even in Vauxhall, New Jersey, bla...

Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at critical risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California’s Coachella Valley, but the family farms that caretake them are shutting down. Apples, cattle, dates?these are foods that carry significant cultural weight. But they’re disappearing. In Endangered Eating, culinary historian Sarah Lohman draws inspi...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY ESQUIRE"A gripping journey through time, Mrjoian brings readers deep into the heart of the Armenian Genocide and its ripples across generations. . . . Waterline is a must-read—intense, moving, and unforgettable.”—Morgan Talty, national bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez and Fire Exit"A moving portrait of grief and the shadows of silence.”—Vanessa Chan, bestse...

“This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we’ve been told—and told ourselves—in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we’ve come to understand as order.” —Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy ExamsWhen and how did migration become a crime? Why does ancient Greece remain so important to the West’s idea of itself? How does nostalgia fuel the exclusion and demonization of migrants today?In 2...

A New York Times and Washington Post Notable BookA Best Book of the Year by BuzzFeed and Real SimpleAn “unmissable” (Vogue), “exceptional” (The Washington Post), and “evocative” (Chicago Tribune) memoir about three Black girls from the storied Bronzeville section of Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship, sisterhood, and the powerfu...

A SOARING, PROPULSIVE, AND UNFORGETTABLE novel about two zookeepers at the last zoo in the world“Sometimes a new author will sidle up and whisper in your ear, and sometimes she’ll grab you by the neck. Emma Sloley is in the latter camp.” ―Rebecca MakkaiCamille has always preferred animals to people. The wild has nearly disappeared, but as a zookeeper at the last zoo in the world, on Alcatraz Island, she spends her days cari...