The Vanishing Half
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with […]
Red At the Bone
Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child.
My Absolute Darling
"The year’s must-read novel…Tallent in this debut makes an old story — the drama of coming of age — feel original and full of youthful power." —The Times (London)
Into the Water
A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged.
The Lonely Hearts Hotel
“A larger-than-life, gritty love story that reads like a fable…The greatest strength of O’Neill’s work, however, is her wholly unique narrative voice, which is at once cool and panoramic, yet shockingly intimate and wisely philosophical. The novel brims with shimmering one-liners.” — The Boston Globe
Modern Lovers
“A wise and edgy guide to old age. . . . A humorous but penetrating look at the issues the baby-boomer generation should consider as it confronts life’s last phase.” —The Seattle Times
The After Party
“DiSclafani’s story sparkles like the jumbo diamonds her characters wear to one-up each other. Historical fiction lovers will linger over every lush detail.” —People
Seven Brief Lessons On Physics
“Short and resonant. . . . The essays in Seven Brief Lessons on Physics arrive like shots of espresso.”—The New York Times
The Girl On the Train
The New York Times – Janet Maslin : The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl…Paula Hawkins [is] no slouch when it comes to trickery or malice…Ms. Hawkins scrambles the timing of scenes, with Megan gone in one chapter and then present in the next. She […]
The Paying Guests
Publishers Weekly ★ 06/16/2014 With two brothers killed in WWI and a debt-ridden father who followed them to the grave soon afterward, 27-year-old spinster Frances Wray knows that she and her mother must take in lodgers (euphemistically described as “paying guestsâ€) to maintain their large house in a genteel section of London. In the postwar […]