Kate Riley’s Ruth offers a quiet, uncompromising portrait of life inside an insular Anabaptist community. Told through vignettes, the novel follows one woman from childhood to motherhood, inviting readers to consider faith and the subtle erosion of self.

Inspired by pop-culture and its influence on contemporary identity, Tom Cho’s Look Who’s Morphing is a short story collection that explores the absurd and fantastical transformations of its central character, an alter-ego of its author.