"Stick Houses is the first story collection by Matthew Fletcher, a citizen of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians and a professor of law. The stories in Stick Houses run the spectrum from realism to science fiction. They explore the lives of Michigan Anishinaabe people and the modern identities of Native people. There is dispossession and separation, but there is also reunion and restoration. Indigenous people are everywhere, navigating...

"Khamilla Zahr-zad's life has been built on a foundation of violence and vengeance. Every home she's known has been destroyed by war. As the daughter of an emperor's clan, she spent her childhood training to maintain his throne. But when her clansmen are assassinated by a rival empire, plans change. With her heavenly magic of nur, Khamilla is a weapon even enemies would wield--especially those in the magical, scholarly city of Za'skar. Hiding her...