Books for Adults
The Blue Door
In 2010, Sophie Canta, India-born but long a Westernized French citizen, receives letters from her religious extremist brother Aamir, whom she thought dead. He wants her inheritance, in cash. He also intends to marry her off to a cruel colleague. She shrugs off his threats -- until odd mischances begin to kill her neighbors. After a death Aamir predicts, Sophie must bolt to India in order to save her best friend’s child. She races to escape the teeming Mumbai she had left behind, using everything recalled from her past life to give her another chance at a second.
The Birches
In small-town Sweden, a young American widow struggles with depression and nightmares until she meets a refugee Somali teenager, a girl with secrets, including those about Katrina's dead husband. Their unusual friendship saves Katrina's online business, but as Bilan confides in her, she must decide how far she -- a stranger with no right to stay in Sweden -- will act to rescue Bilan from her mother's schemes.
In the pipeline: The Bollard
On a field trip to Washington DC, Riko Shimizu, a Japanese middle-school student, accidentally dies. Her father retreats to Tokyo. Her mother, Akane, stays alone in the US while their son finishes the semester. Haunted by "what ifs", Akane grieves in silence until she overhears talk that her daughter's death was no accident. Aided by a friend, Akane struggles with community stonewalling and her husband's insistence that she return to Japan, in order to uncover the details of Riko's last day.
In 2010, Sophie Canta, India-born but long a Westernized French citizen, receives letters from her religious extremist brother Aamir, whom she thought dead. He wants her inheritance, in cash. He also intends to marry her off to a cruel colleague. She shrugs off his threats -- until odd mischances begin to kill her neighbors. After a death Aamir predicts, Sophie must bolt to India in order to save her best friend’s child. She races to escape the teeming Mumbai she had left behind, using everything recalled from her past life to give her another chance at a second.
The Birches
In small-town Sweden, a young American widow struggles with depression and nightmares until she meets a refugee Somali teenager, a girl with secrets, including those about Katrina's dead husband. Their unusual friendship saves Katrina's online business, but as Bilan confides in her, she must decide how far she -- a stranger with no right to stay in Sweden -- will act to rescue Bilan from her mother's schemes.
In the pipeline: The Bollard
On a field trip to Washington DC, Riko Shimizu, a Japanese middle-school student, accidentally dies. Her father retreats to Tokyo. Her mother, Akane, stays alone in the US while their son finishes the semester. Haunted by "what ifs", Akane grieves in silence until she overhears talk that her daughter's death was no accident. Aided by a friend, Akane struggles with community stonewalling and her husband's insistence that she return to Japan, in order to uncover the details of Riko's last day.