In This Issue

Relationships are challenging but rewarding undertakings. Friends, lovers, family, coworkers: every shade and variety dares us to grow, closer together or farther apart. Debut novelist Yiming Ma's hauntingly vulnerable These Memories Do Not Belong to Us explores many such possibilities through stories linked by a contraband memory device in a dystopic future. Meanwhile, in All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation, Elizabeth Gilbert shares the hard-won lessons she learned through a profound and life-altering relationship defined by fierce love, codependency, and grief; and in A Silent Treatment, fellow memoirist Jeannie Vanasco delivers a striking literary investigation into what's unspoken between mother and daughter. Plus, Autumn Krause spins a story of sisters, marriage pacts, and royal intrigue in the YA fantasy Grave Flowers.