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A Novel
by Kate Christensen
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by Julia Pierpont
Published Jun 2016
Read ReviewsA dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a startlingly original story of love and time lost.
by Graeme Simsion
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsThe highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Rosie Project, starring the same extraordinary couple now living in New York and unexpectedly expecting their first child. Get ready to fall in love all over again.
by Jonathan Miles
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsA compulsively readable, deeply human novel that examines our most basic and unquenchable emotion: want. With a satirist's eye and a romantic's heart, Miles captures the morass and comedy of contemporary life in all its excess.
by Ben Schrank
Published Jan 2014
Read ReviewsIn Love Is a Canoe, Ben Schrank delivers a smart, funny, romantic, and hugely satisfying novel about the fragility of marriage and the difficulty of repairing the damage when well-intentioned people forget how to be good to each other.
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
by Jonathan Evison
Published May 2013
Read ReviewsBursting with energy, this big-hearted, soulful, and inspired novel ponders life's terrible surprises and the heart's uncanny capacity to mend and become whole again.
by Anne Enright
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsIn this extraordinary novel, Anne Enright explores the momentous drama of everyday life; the volatile connections between people; the wry, accurate take on families, marriage, and brittle middle age.
by Jonathan Franzen
Published Sep 2011
Read ReviewsFreedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. An indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
by Cate Kennedy
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsA compassionate and unswerving portrait of a broken family whose members go to extraordinary lengths to reclaim their lives and relationships from the mistakes of the past.
by Joshua Ferris
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsWhat drives a man to stay in a marriage, in a job? What forces him away? Is love or conscience enough to overcome the darker, stronger urges of the natural world? The Unnamed is a deeply felt, luminous novel about modern life, ancient yearnings, and the power of human understanding.
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.
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