In NIGAR ALAM‘s Under the Tamarind Tree: A Novel, it is 1964 in Karachi, Pakistan, and Rozeena is about to lose her home as the lives of her childhood best friends seem to be unraveling. Fifty-five years later, she receives a call – and a voice she never thought she’d hear again unearths long-buried secrets. In RACHEL ELIZA GRIFFITH’s Promise: A Novel, as the news fills with calls for freedom, equality, and justice for Black Americans, two Black sisters begin to be viewed as threats by their white neighbors. In ETAF RUM’s Evil Eye: A Novel – a striking exploration of the expectations of Palestinian American women – when Yara is placed on probation at work for fighting with a racist coworker, her Palestinian mother claims the provocation was the result of a family curse. And in JENNY XIE’s Holding Pattern: A Novel, Kathleen returns to her childhood home, where she and her mother must peel back the complicated layers of their history to learn how they can propel each other forward.