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by Jennifer Egan
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsA Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.
by Maggie O'Farrell
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsA spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood.
by Katherine Min
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsIsadora Myung Hee Sohn, known as Isa, worships her mother, an exceptional beauty. Isas father, a scientist and professor, and an orphan, is haunted by the war in which he served as a South Korean soldier and by a painful secret that he keeps from his wife. Still mourning the death of Isas younger brother her parents are traditional ...
by Joan Didion
Published Feb 2007
Read Reviews'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.'
by Ann Patchett
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsThis is a tender, brutal book about loving a person we cannot save. It is about loyalty, and about being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest.
by Toni Morrison
Published Jan 2005
Read ReviewsThis audacious exploration into the nature of love is rich in characters, striking scenes and a profound understanding of how alive the past can be.
by Bebe Moore Campbell
Published Sep 2002
Read ReviewsA stunning account of the changes in white attitudes toward blacks during the second half of the 20th century and a sensitive look at what betrayal--of friendship and of love--does to us all. Ultimately, this is a moving book about healing.
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
by Amy Bloom
Published Jul 2001
Read ReviewsTranscendent stories: about the uncertain gestures of love, about the betrayals and gifts of the body, about the surprises and bounties of the heart, and about what comes to us unbidden and what we choose.
by Susanna Kaysen
Published Apr 1994
Read Reviews"Searing . . . captures an exquisite range of self-awareness between madness and insight."
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