THE TRAUMA OF LEAVING (OR STAYING) HOME

Critics and readers have fallen in love with author Sarah M. Broom’s ambitious debut novel, The Yellow House. The Whiting Foundation, which awarded Broom its Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2016, argues that the engrossing story—which covers 100 years of the author’s family history in New Orleans—is set to “become a modern classic.”

Meanwhile, , Jamaican-American author Nicole Dennis-Benn’s highly anticipated follow-up to her Lambda Award-winning debut novel, , was released in June to high acclaim. called a “novel that continually and subtly defies predictability as it tells a vital and remarkable life story.”