In his debut novel, The Hundred Year Flood, **Matthew Salesses** weaves together the tangled threads of identity, love, growing up, and relationships in a dreamlike tale of twenty-two-year-old Tee as he escapes to Prague in the wake of his uncle’s suicide and the aftermath of 9/11. In the shadow of a looming flood that comes every one hundred years, Tee contemplates his own place in life as both mixed and adopted and as an American in a strange land full of heroes, myths, and ghosts. In her first novel, **Alexander Kleeman** weaves a story of coping with body image inside a tale that serves as a missing-person mystery, an exorcism of modern culture, and a wholly singular vision of contemporary womanhood from a terrifying and often funny voice of a new generation.