Simon & Schuster

Laura Dave is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of several novels, including The Last Thing He Told Me and Eight Hundred Grapes. Her novels have been translated into thirty-eight languages, and six of them, including The Night We Lost Him, have been optioned for film and television.

Luis Jaramillo is the author of the award-winning short story collection, The Doctor’s Wife. His writing has appeared inLitHub, BOMB Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at The New School.

Megan Miranda is the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Perfect Stranger, The Last House Guest, which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, The Girl from Widow Hills, Such a Quiet Place, The Last to Vanish, and The Only Survivors. Her latest book is Daughter of Mine.

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War

Lisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, Shanghai Girls, China Dolls, and Dreams of Joy, which debuted at #1. 

I have found that every novel I write has themes of love, forgiveness, family, classism, colorism, racism and motherhood threaded throughout. These universal themes work in every time period and it was quite easy for me to weave through the hardship that the characters face while always offering a glimpse of light and hope.

Like many academics, a research rabbit hole is my happy place! But surprisingly, I found very little existing scholarship on Renaissance tarot. When that happens, as a researcher, you start to look at topics that might intersect or surround the lacuna so you can set the scene. 

A tale of inherited trauma, but also inherited hope, told in the matrilineal voices of generations of Chinese women.

Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. Her newest novel A Ballad of Love and Glory, is a sweeping historical saga following a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must fight, for their survival and their love, in the midst of the Mexican-American War.