Consider yourself kissed — and hugged and understood — by Jessica Stanley's smart, oh-so-relatable tale of a woman who seems to have assembled all the pieces of a happy life but feels like she's lost ...

But both are ultimately novels about grief. In Aisha Muharrar’s Loved One, it’s obvious what the grief is about: It opens with Julia attending the funeral of her longtime best friend, Gabe, a musician ...

Coralie Bower and Adam Whiteman meet kind-of cute a few pages into Jessica Stanley’s winning second novel, “Consider Yourself Kissed”: Coralie jumps into a pond to save Adam’s precocious 4-year-old ...