In TANANARIVE DUE‘s work of historical fiction, The Reformatory: A Novel, 12-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr. is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, furthering his journey into the terrors of the Jim Crow South. In Our Missing Hearts: A Novel by CELESTE NG, a young boy whose mother disappeared when he was 9 receives a mysterious letter, pulling him into a quest to find her. And in C PAM ZHANG’s Land of Milk and Honey: A Novel, a chef is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate.

Buy The Reformatory: A Novel. – Due

Buy Our Missing Hearts: A Novel. – Ng

Buy Land of Milk and Honey: A Novel. – Zhang