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by Natasha Trethewey
Published Jun 2021
Read ReviewsA chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy.
by Edwidge Danticat
Published Jul 2020
Read ReviewsFrom the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love.
by Cynthia Bond
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsThe epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy herthis beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.
by Nick Lake
Published Jan 2014
Read ReviewsRaw, harrowing, and peopled with vibrant characters, In Darkness is an extraordinary book about the cruelties of man and nature, and the valiant, ongoing struggle for a country's very survival.
by Paul Auster
Published Nov 2013
Read ReviewsFacing his sixty-third winter, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations - both pleasurable and painful.
by Junot Diaz
Published Sep 2013
Read ReviewsThe stories in This Is How You Lose Her, by turns hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts.
by Andrea Gillies
Published Oct 2011
Read ReviewsKeeper is a fiercely honest "glimpse into the dementia abyss" - an endlessly engrossing meditation on memory and the mind, on family, and on a society that is largely indifferent to the far-reaching ravages of this baffling disease.
by Tash Aw
Published Dec 2010
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening time and place. Map of the Invisible World is the masterly, psychologically rich tale of three lives indelibly marked by the pasttheir own and Indonesia's.
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsAn exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us.
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 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 Tracy Kidder
Published Aug 2004
Read ReviewsThis powerful and inspiring book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.
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