At The Freya Project we believe in the transformative power of words.
Stories have the ability to transform our living rooms into an unknown location. We can still explore our world while we are all at home, keeping our distance and keeping our neighbors safe.
Join us as we travel the world through our reader's words.
FLORENCE
Florence in Ecstasy
by Jessie Chaffee
A vivid, visceral debut echoing the novels of Jean Rhys, Elena Ferrante, and Catherine Lacey, Florence in Ecstasy gives us an arresting new vision of a woman’s attempt to find meaning―and find herself―in an unstable world.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Tracing the Horse
by Diana Maria Delgado
Set in Southern California's San Gabriel Valley, Diana Marie Delgado’s debut poetry collection follows the coming-of-age of a young Mexican-American woman trying to make sense of who she is amidst a family and community weighted by violence and addiction. With bracing vulnerability, the collection chronicles the effects of her father’s drug use and her brother’s incarceration, asking the reader to consider reclamation and the power of the self.
SRI LANKA / NEW JERSEY
Half Gods
by Akil Kumarasamy
By turns heartbreaking and fiercely inventive, Half Gods reveals with sharp clarity the ways that parents, children, and friends act as unknowing mirrors to each other, revealing in their all-too human weaknesses, hopes, and sorrows a connection to the divine.
PARIS, NEW YORK CITY
Back Talk
by Danielle Lazarin
Through stories that are at once empathetic and unexpected, these women and girls defiantly push the boundaries between selfishness and self-possession. With a fresh voice and bold honesty, Back Talk examines how narrowly our culture allows women to express their desires.