Now Lila Knows (Akashic Books), the latest novel by Trinidadian-American Elizabeth Nunez, tells the gripping and timely story of a Caribbean professor on her way to an academic post in a small Vermont town, where she witnesses the killing of a Black man by police. Nunez’s narrative brings together urgent questions about race and violence in today’s United States and timeless questions about personal and collective responsibility, in “a page-turner with universal resonance.”