September Carmen Maria Machado

September 2018 Book of the Month Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Published by: GRAYWOLF PRESS ISBN-10: 155597788X ISBN-13: 978-1555977887     SYNOPSIS: In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological…

August Joanell Serra

August 2018 Book of the Month The Vines We Planted by Joanell Serra Published by: WiDo Publishing ISBN-10: 1947966022 ISBN-13: 978-1947966024     SYNOPSIS: In the heart of the California wine country, secrets seem to grow on the vines that Uriel…

July Stephanie Elizondo Griest

July 2018 Book of the Month All the Agents and Saints by Stephanie Elizondo Griest Published by: The University of North Carolina Press ISBN-10:  1469631598 ISBN-13:  978-1469631592 SYNOPSIS: After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer…

June Natalia Sylvester

June 2018 Book of the Month Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester Published by: Little A ISBN-10:  154204636X ISBN-13:  978-1542046367   SYNOPSIS: The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he’s already dead—an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding…

May Rosalie Morales Kearns

May 2018 Book of the Month Kingdom of Women by Rosalie Morales Kearns Published by: Jaded Ibis Press, LLC ISBN-10:  1937543420 ISBN-13:  978-1937543426   SYNOPSIS: In a slightly alternate near-future, women are forming vigilante groups to wreak vengeance on rapists,…