Meant to Be Mine by Hannah Orenstein
From the author of the “funny, sexy, and absurdly entertaining” (Marie Claire) Playing with Matches, a sweeping love story in the vein of Rebecca Serle and Chloe Benjamin about a woman who knows the...
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Brand-New Bubbe by Sarah Aronson
Illustrator: Ariel Landy Jillian isn’t so sure she needs a third grandma now that her stepdad is joining the family, but can her brand-new Bubbe win her over? When Jillian joins Bubbe for some...
What Makes an Apple? by Amos Oz with Shira Hadad
Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures Translator: Jessica Cohen Revelatory talks about art and life with internationally acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz In the last years of his life, the writer...
Raising Raffi: The First Five Years by Keith Gessen
An unsparing, loving account of fatherhood and the surprising, magical, and maddening first five years of a son’s life “I was not prepared to be a father—this much I knew.” Keith Gessen was nearing...
José and the Pirate Captain Toledano by Arnon Z. Shorr, Joshua M. Edelglass
Set in the shadows of the Spanish Inquisition, this is the coming-of-age story of José Alfaro, a young refugee who forms a powerful bond with the mysterious Pirate Captain Toledano. It’s also a dynamic...
My Life in the Sunshine by Nabil Ayers
Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family A memoir about one man’s journey to connect with his musician father, ultimately re-drawing the lines that define family and race. Throughout his adult life, whether...
Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature by Max K. Strassfeld
Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as...
Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley
One night in New York City’s Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs...
Shmutz by Felicia Berliner
In this witty, provocative, and unputdownable debut novel a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get married fears she will never find a groom because of her secret addiction to porn. Like the...
The Discarded Life by Adam Kirsch
In these moving and meditative poems, Adam Kirsch shows how the experiences and recognitions of early life continue to shape us into adulthood. Richly evoking a 1980s childhood in Los Angeles, Kirsch uses Gen...
