Manhunts, posthumous plays and love-struck ghosts in three debut novels. Credit...John Gall Supported by By Angela Lashbrook Blitz Bazawule’s vibrant, funny thriller THE SCENT OF BURNT FLOWERS (235 pp ...

Deb’s charming if not always credible debut novel (after the memoir Missed Translations) charts a middle-class Bengali family’s grief and gradual recovery in a New Jersey suburb. When high school ...

Keya Das, a former schoolteacher, knows all too well how domestic violence changed her life. But she also believes that some men are victims of misuse of the criminal laws intended to protect women.