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by Grant Ginder
Published Apr 2023
Read ReviewsFrom Grant Ginder, the author of The People We Hate at the Wedding, comes Let's Not Do That Again a poignant, funny, and slyly beguiling novel which proves that, like democracy, family is a messy and fragile thing - perfect for fans of Veep's biting humor, the family drama of Succession, and the joys of Kevin Wilson's Nothing to See Here.
by Jonathan Franzen
Published Oct 2022
Read ReviewsJonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads.
by Emma Straub
Published Apr 2021
Read ReviewsA warm, funny, and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family--as the kids become parents, grandchildren become teenagers, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes. From the New York Times bestselling author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers.
by Francesca Hornak
Published Oct 2018
Read ReviewsA warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel about what happens when a family is forced to spend a week together in quarantine over the holidays...
by Kevin Wilson
Published Oct 2017
Read ReviewsKevin Wilson's anticipated follow-up to The Family Fang, Perfect Little World is a warm-hearted and emotional story about a young woman charting her own course.
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by Jonathan Evison
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsPart dysfunctional love story, part poignant exploration of the mother/daughter relationship, Jonathan Evison has crafted a bighearted novel with an endearing heroine at its center.
by Maggie O'Farrell
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsSophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O'Farrell's beguiling novels blend richly textured psychological drama with page-turning suspense. Instructions for a Heatwave finds her at the top of her game, with a novel about a family crisis set during the legendary British heatwave of 1976.
by Kelly Braffet
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsA gripping novel full of suspense and pathos that Dennis Lehane calls an "electrifying, tomahawk missile of a thriller."
by Paul LaFarge
Published Oct 2012
Read ReviewsA decade after the publication of Haussmann, or the Distinction, his acclaimed novel about nineteenth-century Paris, Paul La Farge turns his imagination to America at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
by Brady Udall
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsBeautifully written, keenly observed, and ultimately redemptive, The Lonely Polygamist is an unforgettable story of an American familywith its inevitable dysfunctionality, heartbreak, and comedypushed to its outer limits.
by Sam Lipsyte
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsProbing many themesor, perhaps, anxietiesincluding work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row, and the eroticization of chicken wire, The Ask is a burst of genius by a young American master who has already demonstrated that the truly provocative and important fictions are often...
by Steve Toltz
Published Oct 2008
Read ReviewsA Fraction of the Whole is an uproarious indictment of the modern world and its mores - a rollicking rollercoaster ride from obscurity to infamy, and the moving, memorable story of a father and son whose spiritual symmetry transcends all their many shortcomings.
by Joshua Ferris
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsThe characters in Then We Came To The End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris
Published May 2005
Read ReviewsSedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface in another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Published Mar 2003
Read ReviewsLit by passion, fear, guilt, memory, and hope, the characters in Everything Is Illuminated mine the black holes of history in this exuberant and wise, hysterically funny and deeply moving debut.
by Jonathan Franzen
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsThe Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed.
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