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by JP Gritton
Published Nov 2019
Read ReviewsA cross between Daniel Woodrell and Annie Proulx, Wyoming is about the stubborn grip of inertia and whether or not it is possible to live without accepting oneself.
by Winston Groom
Published Sep 2017
Read ReviewsThree decades after the first publication of Forrest Gump, and seventeen years since his last novel, Winston Groom returns to fiction with this sweeping American epic.
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Published Jun 2017
Read ReviewsA monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
by Richard Wagamese
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsWritten in luminous prose and infused by an uncommonly rich sense of place, Medicine Walk is a stunning achievement.
by Callan Wink
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsIn the tradition of Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, and Kent Haruf comes a dazzling debut story collection by a young writer from the American West who has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, and The Best American Short Stories.
by Christian Kiefer
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsFor fans of Denis Johnson and Peter Matthiessen, a literary thriller from one of the most exciting new voices in American fiction.
by S.M. Hulse
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsA former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront the inmate who, twenty years ago, held him hostage during a prison riot.
by David Vann
Published Oct 2014
Read ReviewsDavid Vann creates a haunting and provocative novel that explores our most primal urges and beliefs, the bonds of blood and religion that define and secure us, and the consequences of our actions - what we owe for what we've done.
by Claire Vaye Watkins
Published Aug 2013
Read ReviewsLike the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice.
by Alice Munro
Published Jul 2013
Read ReviewsSuffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales about departures and beginnings, accidents and dangers, and outgoings and homecomings both imagined and real, paint a radiant, indelible portrait of how strange, perilous, and extraordinary ordinary life can be.
by J.K. (Joanne) Rowling
Published Jul 2013
Read ReviewsBlackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults.
by Linda Olsson
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsFrom the beloved author of Astrid & Veronika, a moving tale of friendship and redemption
by Deni Y. Béchard
Published May 2012
Read ReviewsIn assured and mystically powerful prose, Deni Y. Béchard tells a wide-ranging, spellbinding story of a family trying to create an identity in an unwelcoming landscape.
by Kevin Wilson
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsMeet The Family Fang, an unforgettable collection of demanding, brilliant, and absolutely endearing oddballs whose lives are risky and mischievous performance art.
by Howard Norman
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsSeventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents commit suicide, causing him to move to a small-town, and setting in motion the novel's chain of life-altering passions, including the fathering of a beloved daughter.
by Michael Crummey
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsSprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us.
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