10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

Elif Shafak

For Leila, each minute after her death recalls a sensuous memory: spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the birth of a yearned-for son; bubbling vats of lemon and sugar to wax women's legs while men are at prayer; the cardamom coffee she shares with a handsome student in the brothel wh...

Black Shield Maiden

WILLOW and Jess Hendel

A feminist, multicultural reimagining of the Old Norse Sagas from the enormously talented duo Willow Smith and Jess Hendel. The Black Shield Maiden trilogy is a feminist, multicultural reimagining of the Heimskringla, the best known of the Old Norse king's sagas. It's both a bildungsroman and a revision...