The Long Fall

Kirkus Reviews:The creator of Easy Rawlins, Socrates Fortlow and Fearless Jones introduces a new detective struggling to live down his checkered past in present-day New York. Leonid McGill has never killed anyone maliciously, but he's done plenty of other bad things. Still working as a private eye in his 50s, he's decided to expiate his […]

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Afghan-American novelist Hosseini follows up his bestselling The Kite Runner with another searing epic of Afghanistan in turmoil. The story covers three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny through the lives of two women. Mariam is the scorned illegitimate daughter of a wealthy businessman, forced at age […]

Knots

Publishers Weekly : Somalia-born Farah's ninth novel (after Links, first in a trilogy of which this is the second book) tells the spellbinding story of Cambara, a Somalian ?migr? to Canada. Cambara is mourning her only son's drowning death?in the Toronto pool of her abusive lawyer husband's mistress. In the aftermath, Cambara resolves to leave […]