Elwood Curtis, a black boy in the 1960s, is wrongly sentenced to a horrifying juvenile center, where he is determined to remember that he is worthy.
Category Archives: Fiction
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Orson Scott Card draws mesmerizing lines between history and science fiction as he wonders: What if someone could go back in time and change Christopher Columbus’s mind?
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin’s sometimes melancholy, sometimes spirited, and always beautiful collection of short stories.
Gutshot
This slim collection of short stories is brutal, startling, and reveals what people feel deep down when they’re at their most desperate.