There is this about the novel The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez: The push and pull between reason and emotion, choice and chance, life and death—a trio of diametrical pairings played against each other in the life of the narrator, Antonio Yammara.

The setting of Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat is a fishermen’s town on the coast…

When it comes to human behavior, there is nothing pure about it, just as there is nothing pure…