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by Jennifer Egan
Published Mar 2023
Read ReviewsFrom one of the most celebrated writers of our time, a literary figure with cult status, a "sibling novel" to her Pulitzer Prize- and NBCC Award-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad - an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity and meaning in a world where memories and identities are no longer private.
by Joan Silber
Published Jun 2022
Read ReviewsWhen a man discovers his father in New York has long had another, secret, family - a wife and two kids - the interlocking fates of both families lead to surprise loyalties, love triangles, and a reservoir of inner strength.
by Scarlett Thomas
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsThe Seed Collectors is a tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees by a literary star in the UK.
by Matthew Specktor
Published Apr 2014
Read ReviewsAmerican Dream Machine is the story of two talent agents and their three troubled boys, heirs to Hollywood royalty. It's a sweeping narrative about fathers and sons, the movie business, and the sundry sea changes that have shaped Hollywood and, by extension, American life
by Jim Gavin
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsMiddle Men brings to life a series of unforgettable characters learning what it means to love and work and be in the world as a man
by Paul LaFarge
Published Oct 2012
Read ReviewsA decade after the publication of Haussmann, or the Distinction, his acclaimed novel about nineteenth-century Paris, Paul La Farge turns his imagination to America at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
by Steve Earle
Published May 2012
Read ReviewsA brilliant excavation of an obscure piece of music history, Steve Earle's I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is a ballad of regret and redemption, and of the ways in which we remake ourselves and our world through the smallest of miracles.
by Tom Perrotta
Published May 2012
Read ReviewsWhat ifwhoosh, right now, with no explanationa number of us simply vanished? Would some of us collapse? Would others of us go on, one foot in front of the other, as we did before the world turned upside down?
by Daniel Kehlmann
Published Nov 2011
Read ReviewsIn Fame, nine episodes coalesce to form a coherent whole as Daniel Kehlmann plays a sophisticated game with reality and fiction - creating, in essence, a dazzling hall of mirrors.
by Rivka Galchen
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsAtmospheric Disturbances is at once a moving love story, a dark comedy, a psychological thriller, and a deeply disturbing portrait of a fracturing mind.
by Mary Gaitskill
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsMasterfully layering time and space, thought and sensation, Mary Gaitskill dazzles the reader with psychological insight and a mystical sense of the soul's hurtling passage through the world.
by David Mitchell
Published Oct 2001
Read ReviewsDavid Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas like gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories.
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