In Clémence Michallon’s Our Last Resort: A Novel, Frida and Gabriel have grown apart in recent years after a sudden, unspeakable tragedy, and search for a fresh start at the Ara Hotel in the secluded desert of Escalante, Utah. It all feels like paradise – until a beautiful young woman is murdered, Gabriel is named a suspect, and even Frida can’t ignore the evidence mounting against him. In Dwyer Murphy’s The House on Buzzards Bay: A Novel,…
In How to Be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir, Camille U. Adams maps the fault lines between mother and child against the backdrop of Trinidad’s colonial violence and her family’s legacy of abandonment. Tormented by her mother’s presence and haunted by her absence, Adams presents an account of survival and self-determination, reimagining the meaning of escape, its cost, and what comes after. Sasha Bonét’s The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters is a meditation on Black motherhood.…