A Darkly Funny and Intimate Shift at the Hospital
God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer by Joseph Earl Thomas is a darkly funny and surprisingly intimate novel that features an […]
If The City Could Talk: A Tribute to Queer Love, Art, and Philadelphia
Emma Copley Eisenberg’s Housemates is a charming and extrospective dissection of what it means to connect with others—through love, through […]
Secrets Verge on Their Expiration Dates in Elise Juska’s Reunion
In Elise Juska’s latest novel, Reunion, three friends converge at their pandemic-postponed twenty-fifth college reunion, where blistering secrets of marriage […]
Exploring Ownership vs. Love in C.J. Spataro’s More Strange than True
Shockingly funny and exquisitely tender, More Strange Than True by C.J Spataro is a romance novel perfectly balanced between comedy […]
A Horror Story Confronts the Ugliness of Hate
Debra K. Every weaponizes the senses in her debut novel, Deena Undone, a cocktail of horror that at once unsettles […]
Unlikely Friends Solving Murders on the Schuylkill
Jenny Adams hooks you fast and doesn’t let go with A Deadly Endeavor, her electrifying historical mystery set in Prohibition […]
A Forgotten Woman Striving For Freedom
Jaime Grookett’s novel The Invisible Ones is both devastating and inspiring in its exploration of the treatment of women in […]
A Multilayered Tale of Two Disappearances
If you’re a mystery lover, The God of the Woods by Liz Moore will satisfy all your cravings and then […]
A Tale of Perseverance in Pre-Civil War Philadelphia: Ashton Lattimore’s All We Were Promised
Ashton Lattimore’s debut historical-fiction novel, All We Were Promised, tells a tale of injustice, cruelty, and hope. The novel follows […]
A Novel of Recovery and Rediscovery
In a classic tale, there is a hero and a villain. The hero fights, conquers the villain, and lives happily […]