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by LaToya Watkins
Published Aug 2023
Read ReviewsFrom a stunning new voice, comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, exploring the effects of inherited trauma and intergenerational violence as the family comes together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her deathbed.
by Ethan Canin
Published Oct 2016
Read ReviewsIn this mesmerizing novel, Ethan Canin, the New York Times bestselling author of America America and other acclaimed works of fiction, explores the nature of genius, jealousy, ambition, and love in several generations of a gifted family.
by Mary McGarry Morris
Published Apr 2010
Read ReviewsNora Hammond is a woman blessed with the perfect life: a charming husband, two bright teenage children, a successful career. But Nora's comfortable existence threatens to unravel when she learns of her husband's longtime affair, and a sordid incident from her youth returns with terrifying force.
by Virginia Holman
Published Mar 2004
Read ReviewsA startling memoir of a daughter's harrowing sojourn in the prison of her mother's mind and a moving portrait of a young woman defined by her mother's illness -- until at last she rekindles a family love that had lost its way.
by Carol Shields
Published May 2003
Read ReviewsA harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing.
by Nomi Eve
Published Sep 2001
Read ReviewsA multigenerational saga encompassing two hundred years in the life of an unforgettable family set in Jerusalem, from the early years of the nineteenth century to the present.
by Anne Tyler
Published Mar 1999
Read ReviewsThe story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order.
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