Tal — Hala Alyan

In Tal, a group of friends spends a night by the river. Love and lust and friendship blurs as their all-too-real home lives remain ever-present.

“I love these stories for their tight and complex architectures, for their dark corners, and for their willingness to shine a light on all the people we've been and all we might become. Brace yourselves.” -- T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls (Bloomsbury)

“In these beautiful stories, you'll see yourself staring right back, mouthing the words, ‘Keep turning the pages. It'll be okay -- maybe not now, but someday.'” -- Michael J Seidlinger, author of Standard Loneliness Package & My Pet Serial Killer