The Gravedigger's Daughter
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. At the beginning of Oates's 36th novel, Rebecca Schwart is mistaken by a seemingly harmless man for another woman, Hazel Jones, on a footpath in 1959 Chatauqua Falls, N.Y. Five hundred pages later, Rebecca will find out that the man who accosted her is a serial killer, and Oates will […]
Winter World : the Ingenuity of Animal Survival
Rough Crossings : Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution
Publisher Weekly Review: Reviewed by Adam Hochschild-Has there ever been a patch of history more celebrated than the American Revolution? The torrent is endless: volume after volume about the glory of 1776, the miracle of 1787 and enough biographies of the Founding Fathers to stretch from the Liberty Bell to Bunker Hill and back again. […]
Missing Mom : a Novel
From the bestselling author of "The Falls" comes the story of a single, 31-year-old woman who undergoes a tumultuous year of mourning after the unexpected loss of her mother.