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Stories
by Alice Munro
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by Mary Beth Keane
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsGreta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York. Fifty years later, when the Ireland of her memory bears little resemblance to that of present day, she fears that it is still possible to lose all when she discovers that her childrenwith the best of intentions...
by Alice Fulton
Published Jul 2009
Read ReviewsSet in Troy, New York, this linked collection follows a quirky and resilient family of women throughout the twentieth century.
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsEight storieslonger and more emotionally complex than any Lahiri has yet writtenthat take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.
by Richard Russo
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsBridge of Sighs courses with small-town rhythms and the claims of family. Here is a town, as well as a world, defined by magnificent and nearly devastating contradictions.
by Frank Delaney
Published Feb 2006
Read ReviewsFrom a land famous for storytelling comes an epic novel that captures the intimate, passionate texture of the Irish spirit.
by Carol Shields
Published May 2003
Read ReviewsA harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing.
by Elizabeth Berg
Published May 2001
Read ReviewsA love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.
by Edna O'Brien
Published May 2001
Read ReviewsCharts the quick and critical demise of relations between Joseph Brennan and Mick Bugler "the warring sons of warring sons" in the countryside of western Ireland.
by Richard Ford
Published Jul 1996
Read ReviewsFrank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet he's still living in New Jersey, where he now sells real estate. Frank has high hopes for this 4th of July weekend; but Independence Day does not turn out as he'd planned, and this decent, bewildered, profoundly observant man is wrenched, gradually and inevitably, out of his private refuge.
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