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In her second novel, Hila Blum plumbs the depths of one of the most complicated relationships known to women.

In her debut novel, “King of the Armadillos,” Wendy Chin-Tanner explores immigration, illness and opportunity through the story of a teenage immigrant who is diagnosed with Hansen’s disease.

Henry Bean’s first novel, reissued as “The Nenoquich,” follows a young writer in Berkeley through a transformative affair.

“Girls and Their Monsters,” by Audrey Clare Farley, recounts the tragic story of the Genain sisters, seeing the subjects at the crossroads of psychiatric and societal forces.

Her new collection, “Onlookers,” is about shattered certainties in the wake of quarantine, growth and unrest.

In “When Crack Was King,” Donovan X. Ramsey offers a fresh history of the epidemic that gripped minority communities, inflamed media coverage and led to draconian drug laws.

In Sarah Rose Etter’s novel “Ripe,” a 30-something writes marketing copy by day, but spends her nights diving deep into the void.

In “The Parrot and the Igloo,” the novelist and journalist David Lipsky spins top-flight climate literature into cliffhanger entertainment.

In his riotous new novel, “Hope,” Andrew Ridker finds the humor in a family’s plummet from grace.

In her debut novel, “The Centre,” Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi explores class anxiety, identity, appropriation and more through a sinister language school.