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by Sally Rooney
Published Jun 2022
Read ReviewsBeautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends.
by Peter Bognanni
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsWholly original, The House of Tomorrow is the story of a young man's self-discovery, a dying woman's last wish, and a band of misfits trying desperately to be heard.
by David J. Halperin
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsA sparkling debut novel set in the sixties about a boy's emotional and fantastical journey through alien worlds and family pain.
by Peter Murphy
Published Apr 2010
Read ReviewsThis is the story of John Devine stuck in a small town in the eerie landscape of Southeast Ireland, worried over by his single, chain-smoking, bible-quoting mother. Suffused with family secrets, eerie imagery, black humor, and hypnotic prose, John the Revelator is a novel to fall in love with and an astounding debut.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsThings have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuk - the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations.
by Adam Langer
Published May 2005
Read ReviewsPoignant, ambitious, and tremendously fun, Crossing California is a novel about two generations of family and friendship; set in Chicago, from November 1979 through January 1981.
by Scott Wolven
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsPowered by a spare, ruminative prose style that recalls the best of Denis Johnson and Thom Jones, Controlled Burn is an unforgettable debut.
by Jonathan Coe
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsAs the world appears to self-destruct around them, four teenage friends hold together to navigate the choppy waters of a decidedly ambiguous decade - the 1970s.
by Tony Earley
Published Apr 2001
Read ReviewsA luminous portrait of a ten-year-old boy growing up in the Depression-era town of Aliceville, North Carolina
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