Fred forgot three things in a row before he reached the front door on his way to work.

“Mrs. Caliban,” a novel, back in print, by Rachel Ingalls

I am the white boy at the Martin Luther King Middle.

“Green,” a novel by Sam Graham-Felsen

Fame would strike someone, usually the kind that healthy-minded people would not wish upon themselves, such as being kidnapped and kept prisoner for years, humiliated in a sex scandal, or surviving something particularly fatal.

“The Refugees,” stories, now in paperback, by Viet Thanh Nguyen