Sarah Henstra: 3 books

The Red Word is a smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at both rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go. Rape culture has been getting a significant amount of media attention recently, and Henstra’s fictional take is nuanced, compelling, and very timely. Though the...

It's London, 1872, where 17-year-old heiress Leonora Somerville is preparing to be presented to upper upper-class society -- again. She's strikingly beautiful and going to be very rich, but Leo has a problem money can’t solve. A curious speech disorder causes her to stutter but also allows her to...

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets I'll Give You the Sun in an exhilarating and emotional novel about the growing relationship between two teenage boys, told through the letters they write to one another. Jonathan Hopkirk and Adam "Kurl" Kurlansky are partnered...