Hungry Ghosts

Four generations of a Korean family navigate life under Japanese rule and in Japan.

In March 1939 the Kurc family gathers for Passover in Radom, Poland; by autumn the war has scattered Sol and Nechuma’s children from the ghetto to a Siberian camp, occupied France, and a refugee ship bound for Brazil. Georgia Hunter’s 2017 novel is World War II saga historical fiction of the years they spend trying to stay alive and find one another, drawn from the author’s own family.

An evangelical family arrives in the Congo on the eve of independence—told through the daughters’ voices.

Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in Moscow’s Metropol Hotel as the Soviet century remakes the world outside. Over three decades he builds a life of friendship, purpose, and quiet resistance within the hotel’s walls.

Linked stories follow two half-sisters’ lineages across centuries of African and American history.

Black maids and a young white writer risk everything to tell the truth about life in 1960s Mississippi.