Contemporary Women

She Effin' Hates Me

by Scarlett Savage – Skyhorse (February 04, 2014)

Molly has arrived home from Vassar to reveal that she has an important announcement to make. Her mother, Suzanne, is convinced that Molly’s news is history repeating herself — and that she’s about to become...

Left

by Tamar Ossowski – Skyhorse (October 01, 2013)

Therese Wolley is a mother who has made a promise. She works as a secretary, shops for groceries on Saturdays, and takes care of her two girls. She doesn’t dwell on the fact that her girls are fatherless,...

Maps

by Nuruddin Farah – Arcade (September 08, 1999)

Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. Maps is the first novel in his acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, set in his...

Bitter Bitch

by Maria Sveland & Katarina E. Tucker – Skyhorse (June 11, 2011)

On a miserable January morning, Sarah is sitting on a plane to Tenerife, Spain—without her husband or her children—for a week-long vacation. At the age of thirty, she’s just realized that she’s very angry...

Walking Through Fire

by Sherri Cook Woosley – Talos (September 04, 2018)

For fans of American Gods, a dark, humorous, and richly written, dystopian fantasy about the unbreakable bonds of family and the undying strength of a mother's love.

The end of the world begins as fire rains...

Cottonmouths

by Kelly J. Ford – Skyhorse (June 06, 2017)

From a compelling new voice in LGBTQ and Southern fiction, a gripping tale of crime and desire amid small-town America’s meth epidemic.

This was Drear’s Bluff. Nothing bad happened here. People didn’t disappear....

The Past Is Never

by Tiffany Quay Tyson – Skyhorse (March 20, 2018)

Siblings Bert, Willet, and Pansy know better than to go swimming at the old rock quarry. According to their father, it's the Devil's place, a place that's been cursed and forgotten. But Mississippi Delta summer...

Jean Harley Was Here

by Heather Taylor Johnson – Arcade (October 02, 2018)

Finalist for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction

For readers of Everything I Never Told You and When I’m Gone, a profoundly moving, heartwarming debut about family, relationships, and what we leave...

The Wide Circumference of Love

by Marita Golden – Arcade (March 28, 2017)

2018 NAACP Image Award Nominee

An NPR Best Book of 2017

From acclaimed author Marita Golden comes a moving African-American family drama of love and devotion in the face of Alzheimer’s disease.

You just can’t...

Cut to the Bone

by Alex Caan – Skyhorse (March 07, 2017)

Ruby Day is a young vlogger, a rising star of YouTube, and a wholesome role-model to millions of teenage girls. And she is missing. Detective Inspector Kate Riley, the head of a new high-powered team of detectives,...

Sugar

by Kimberly Stuart – Skyhorse (February 07, 2017)

After realizing her coworkers at L’Ombre, a high-profile restaurant in NYC, will never appreciate or respect her, Charlie Garrett allows her ex-boyfriend, Avery Michaels, to convince her to work for him as...

Vegas Girls

by Heather Skyler – Skyhorse (October 04, 2016)

For Fans of Julia Glass and Ann Hood, a Novel about How the Choices We Make Last a Lifetime

Vegas Girls begins when three former high school friends, now in their mid-thirties, reunite in their hometown of Las...

The Weeping Woman

by Zoé Valdés & David Frye – Arcade (March 01, 2016)

Winner of the prestigious Azorín Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar.

A writer resembling Zoé Valdés—a Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband...

Danny's Mom

by Elaine Wolf – Arcade (June 09, 2015)

Friday Night Lights meets Ordinary People when Beth Maller returns to her job as a guidance counselor at Meadow Brook High School shortly after an unspeakable family tragedy. Railing against the everyday injustices...