Literary Fiction

Character-focused novels where voice, structure, moral tension, and close attention to ordinary life matter as much as the external plot.

The Calamity Club

In 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, eleven-year-old Meg, practical Birdie, and desperate Charlie are drawn into an audacious plan as poverty, an abusive orphanage, family secrets, and hostile institutions close around them.

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Theo of Golden

A mysterious older man arrives in Golden, buys ninety-two pencil portraits from a coffeehouse wall, and returns them one by one to their subjects in exchange for the stories behind their faces.

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