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Published Jan 2020
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by Jamie Ford
Published Jun 2018
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by Meg Mullins
Published Jun 2007
Read ReviewsA sparkling debut novel about an unlikely romance between an Iranian immigrant and an American college student.
by Gish Jen
Published Oct 2005
Read ReviewsPowerfully evoking the contemporary American family in all its fragility and strength, Gish Jen has given us her most exuberant and accomplished novel about the new "half-half" American family.
by Julie Otsuka
Published Oct 2003
Read ReviewsThis commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. A haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times.
by Anne River Siddons
Published May 1999
Read ReviewsA story of personal renewal and transformation - one woman's proper Old South upbringing and expectations colliding with the new South's runaway prosperity.
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