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by Nathan Hill
Published Jun 2024
Read ReviewsThe New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about marriage, the often baffling pursuit of health and happiness, and the stories that bind us together. From the gritty '90s Chicago art scene to a suburbia of detox diets and home-renovation hysteria, Wellness reimagines the love story with a healthy dose ...
Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
by Rajeev Balasubramanyam
Published Mar 2020
Read ReviewsFollow the completely infuriating, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy?
by Chloe Benjamin
Published Feb 2019
Read ReviewsA dazzling family love story reminiscent of Everything I Never Told You from a novelist heralded by Lorrie Moore as a "great new talent."
by Salman Rushdie
Published Jun 2018
Read ReviewsA modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culturea hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Vivek Shanbhag
Published Feb 2017
Read ReviewsFor readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting, masterly novel about a family splintered by success in rapidly changing India.
by Richard Russo
Published Jan 2017
Read ReviewsRichard Russo, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters who made Nobody's Fool (1993) a "confident, assured novel [that] sweeps the reader up," according to the San Francisco Chronicle back then. "Simple as family love, yet nearly as complicated." Or, as The Boston Globe put it, "a big, ...
by Bill Clegg
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsThe stunning debut novel from bestselling author Bill Clegg is a magnificently powerful story about a circle of people who find solace in the least likely of places as they cope with a horrific tragedy.
by Lauren Acampora
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsDeliciously creepy and masterfully complex The Wonder Garden heralds the arrival of a phenomenal new talent in American fiction.
by Elise Juska
Published May 2015
Read ReviewsThrough departures and arrivals, weddings and reunions, The Blessings reveals the interior worlds of the members of a close-knit Irish-Catholic family and the rituals that unite them.
by Jonathan Lethem
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsA dazzling novel from one of our finest writersan epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals
The Explanation for Everything
by Lauren Grodstein
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsThe Explanation for Everything explores humankind's insatiable search for meaning, the risks and rewards of faith, and the salvation that love can offer us all.
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 Joshua Henkin
Published Apr 2013
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the New York Times Notable Book Matrimony, a moving new novel about love, loss, and the aftermath of a family tragedy.
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 Jonathan Tropper
Published Jul 2010
Read ReviewsA riotously funny, emotionally raw novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bindwhether we like it or not.
All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well
by Tod Wodicka
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsMeet Burt Hecker - a mead-drinking, tunic-wearing medieval re-enactor from upstate New York in Tod Wodicka's debut, a modern-day Arthurian quest that introduces one of the most winning oddball characters to come along in years.
by Richard Powers
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsFollowing a near-fatal accident, Mark Schluter is nursed by his reluctant sister. But when he emerges from his coma, Mark believes that this woman who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister is really an identical impostor. As a famous neurologist investigates his condition, Mark tries to learn what really happened the night of ...
by Adam Langer
Published May 2005
Read ReviewsPoignant, ambitious, and tremendously fun, Crossing California is a novel about two generations of family and friendship; set in Chicago, from November 1979 through January 1981.
by Jonathan Lethem
Published Aug 2004
Read Reviews'A vibrant, sometimes heartbreaking ballad of Brooklyn...prose as supple as silk and as bright, explosive and illuminating as fireworks.'
by Richard Russo
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsWith all the vision, grace and humanity of truly epic storytelling Russo extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
Published Aug 2001
Read ReviewsA serious but never solemn novel about the American comic book's Golden Age, from the late 1930's to the early 1950s. 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction.
by A Manette Ansay
Published Nov 1999
Read ReviewsEllen has brought her two children into the home of her in-laws - a loveless house - where calculated cruelty is a way of life preserved and perpetuated in the service of a rigid, exacting and angry God.
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