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by Megan Mayhew Bergman
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by Ron Rash
Published Jul 2021
Read ReviewsFrom bestselling and award-winning writer Ron Rash ("One of the great American authors at work today."--the New York Times) comes a collection of ten searing stories and the return of the villainess who propelled Serena to national acclaim, in a long-awaited novella.
by Deb Olin Unferth
Published Mar 2020
Read ReviewsAn unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powers.
by Sloane Crosley
Published Apr 2019
Read ReviewsA brand-new collection of essays filled with hilarity, wit, and charm. The characteristic heart and punch-packing observations are back, but with a newfound coat of maturity. A thin coat. More of a blazer, really.
by Michael Knight
Published Mar 2018
Read ReviewsThese stories, told with economy and precision, infused with humor and pathos, excavate brilliantly the latent desires and motivations that drive life forward.
by Mary Miller
Published Jan 2018
Read ReviewsCombining hard-edged prose and savage Southern charm, Mary Miller showcases biting contemporary talent at its best. In The Last Days of California, she now reaches new heights with this collection of shockingly relatable, ill-fated love stories.
by Robert Oldshue
Published Oct 2016
Read ReviewsIn upstate New York, a November storm is one that comes early in the season. If it catches people off-guard, it can change them in the ways Oldshue's characters are changed by different but equally surprising storms.
by Alice Greenway
Published Nov 2014
Read ReviewsWritten in lush, lyrical prose - rich in island detail, redolent of Maine in summer and of the Pacific -The Bird Skinner is wise and wrenching, an unforgettable masterwork from an extraordinarily skillful novelist.
by Richard Powers
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsThe National Book Awardwinning author of The Echo Maker delivers his most emotionally charged novel to date, inspired by the myth of Orpheus.
by Hanya Yanagihara
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsReaders of exciting, challenging and visionary literary fiction will be drawn to this astonishingly gripping and accomplished anthropological adventure story that combines the visceral allure of a thriller with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide.
by Lydia Millet
Published Nov 2013
Read ReviewsFunny and heartbreaking, Magnificence is the story of a woman emerging from the sudden dissolution of her family.
by Barbara Kingsolver
Published Jun 2013
Read ReviewsFlight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world.
by Alice Munro
Published Nov 2010
Read ReviewsIn these ten stories, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives.
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 Elizabeth Strout
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires.
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
by Karen Russell
Published Aug 2007
Read ReviewsA collection of ten short stories, beautifully written and exuberantly imagined, with an emotional precision behind their wondrous surfaces that makes them unforgettable.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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