Native Country of the Heart is a firsthand account of trying to preserve one’s ancestral history when the pressures of elders or society tell you that you should forget one entire culture that led to your birth, for the alleged betterment of yourself. Moraga portrays a sadness and longing felt in part for herself and her burgeoning queer identity, which she initially felt she had to suppress for survival, and a sadness and longing felt in part for her native ancestors and the native populations of the Americas.

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In this poetry collection, Ana Luísa Amaral explores the value of naming as a means of bestowing value on the people, places, and things in our world. Through these explorations, she tackles the difficult subject of immigration in a lament on the loss of dignity that refugees and other immigrants lose as they seek to re-establish themselves in a new world.

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Erin McGraw’s latest collection, Joy, is a mosaic of 52 short stories that seamlessly and humorously capture the multifaceted bits of everyday life. McGraw’s slice-of-life drop-ins of Americans living within their own bubbles distill the essence of people who act with internal logic yet appear borderline absurd to those around them.

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Madame Nielsen’s novel The Endless Summer is an elegy for youth, a sensuous reflection on its fleeting promise and unrealized possibilities. Nielsen touches on gender, sexuality, love, death, and art, but, like her characters, those themes largely remain archetypal, opaque. Rather, Nielsen emphasizes the power of language in memorializing life, in imbuing it with meaning.

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Perennial, Kelly Forsythe’s debut poetry collection, tackles a subject that has become unfortunately ubiquitous in American culture: the Columbine High School shooting that occurred on April 20, 1999.

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Young Latinx Artists 23: Beyond Walls, Between Gates, Under Bridges asked up-and-coming Latinx artists and curators to consider and explore the border between the U.S. and Mexico, a flashpoint for so much contemporary political sorrow and strife.

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Yoko Tawada’s The Emissary, newly translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani, takes place following an unnamed disaster which causes Japan to completely cut itself off from the world.

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In Belly Up, all of Rita Bullwinkel’s characters are ghosts, haunted, or both. The cast of ghosts includes: dead strangers, dead husbands, dead neighbors’ husbands, husbands in prison camps, the people that frequent 24-hour donut shops, Floridians, and more.

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