Adult

Marcelo Sandoval has an unidentified, autism-like impairment and hears music no one else can --- and he's always attended a school that's been protective of his differences. But then his father demands that Marcelo work in his law firm's mailroom, where he learns about competition and jealousy, anger and desire. But it's a picture of a girl with half a face that truly connects him to "the real world": its suffering, its injustice, and what he can do to fight.

Ten thousand years ago, Morpheus condemned a woman who loved him to Hell. Now the other members of his immortal family, The Endless, have convinced the Dream King that this was an injustice. To make it right, Morpheus must return to Hell to rescue his banished love

Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is startling and original fiction that raises provocative questions of power and freedom, love and dependence. An enchanting and unforgettable novel based on little-known fact, Wench combines the narrative allure of CANE RIVER by Lalita Tademy and the moral complexities of Edward P. Jones’s THE KNOWN WORLD as it tells the story of four black enslaved women in the years preceding the Civil War.