For Black, a mural artist in East L.A., the city's tumbledown landscape is his canvas. Residing in a ramshackle apartment above 'The Ugly Store', he lives for his art and obsesses over Sweet Girl, the transvestite stripper who serves as his muse. Black navigates life alongside the Los Angeles River,[...]

Before he can retire, Las Vegas detective Salazar is determined to solve a recent spate of murders. When he encounters a pair of conjoined twins with a container of blood near their car, he's sure he has apprehended the killers, and enlists the help of Dr. Sunil Singh, a South African transplant who[...]

Even with the knowledge that there are some sins too big for even God to forgive, every night my sky is still full of stars; a wonderful song for night. Trained as a human mine detector, My Luck, a boy soldier in West Africa witnesses and takes part in unspeakable brutality. At 12, his vocal cords a[...]

Graceland är Chris Abanis genombrottsroman. En häpnadsväckande berättelse om 16-årige Elvis Oke som lever med sin alkoholiserade far i ett slumområde i jättestaden Lagos, Nigeria. Elvis drömmer om ett liv i frihet, utanför slummen och bortom faderns kontroll. Han försöker försörja sig s[...]