Books

Everyone in the compound agrees she's a good woman. No one has asked what it's cost her to stay one.

Two brothers split a country and a grievance between them. Only one of them knows the split was never even.

The affair isn't the story. What two people do in the ninety seconds after getting caught — that's the story.

A town waits three years for a flood to be officially acknowledged as anyone's fault. This is the family that stops waiting.

She is carrying someone else's child for money she needs and won't apologize for needing. The book won't apologize for her either.

Iris is losing her sight on a schedule her doctors can predict almost to the month. She has decided not to tell the people who'd try to make it meaningful.

He got everything he worked for. He's starting to suspect the work required leaving behind the only person who wanted him unimproved.

An extended argument over whether becoming better is discovery or invention — and why the difference matters more than either answer.

A collection of essays on the small cruelties a culture agrees not to name — and what it costs to name them anyway.