In “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home,” the Palestinian American writer Hala Alyan draws on her life experiences and her family’s multiple displacements across generations.
A lonely Londoner cyber-stalks her married lover and his other paramours; a dispersed Guatemalan American family comes together in crisis; a Mohawk mother navigates life off the rez.
Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and the ideological battles that followed the Second Vatican Council.