Comment On The Browser: A Quick Look At Recent Releases

FICTION: This unclassifiable and wildly inventive book will transport readers to an isolated Azores archipelago.

A transcendent tale of a season with a scruffy minor-league baseball team in a scruffy minor-league town.

FICTION: An Afghan family endures in the face of migration, poverty and war.

Author and transgender advocate Jennifer Finney Boylan looks at motherhood, fatherhood and the putative difference in this new memoir.Jennifer Finney Boylan was the father of two young boys, a devoted husband, a keyboard player in bar bands, the author of three published novels, and an English professor in Maine when she began the process that would make her outwardly — anatomically and socially — the woman she felt she had always been on the inside. Her book about life before, during and after that transition, "She's Not There" (2003), made her a guiding star for many transgender readers: Here was somebody who made all the changes she needed and, despite all the growing pains, got to keep most of her life.