In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria — just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque and school, firebombs late at night. Homes tells of the strange juxtapositions of growing up in a war zone: horrific, unimaginable events punctuated by normalcy — soccer, cousins, video games, friends. Homes is the remarkable true story of how a young boy emerged from a war zone — and found saf...

The third collection from celebrated poet Joan Crate carries the reader along on a sequence of poetic reveries that collide and collude suburban routine with subconscious fantasy. The specter of Snow White--here in an incarnation far Grimmer than her more familiar casting as the wide-eyed Angel in t...

A high school teacher drifts from a moored boat to a downtown trance club, while negotiating her problematic relationship with an alcoholic older brother....