Fiction reviews

Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao (Dallas Morning News)

Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty by Romona Ausubel (Iowa Review)

White Tears by Hari Kunzru (Dallas Morning News)

Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran (Dallas Morning News)

Valiant Gentlemen by Sabina Murray (Dallas Morning News)

Absalom's Daughters by Suzanne Feldman (Dallas Morning News)

Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan (Dallas Morning News)

The Illegal by Lawrence Hill (Dallas Morning News)

The Sellout by Paul Beatty (Dallas Morning News)

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (Dallas Morning News)

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)