Through these interconnected narratives more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives.
The Dew Breaker by
Edwidge Danticat
Hardcover: Mar 2004
Paperback: 8 Mar 2005 Publication information
A brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker"—a torturer—a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality.
Sightseeing
: Short Stories
by
Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Hardcover: Dec 2004
Paperback: 28 Jan 2005 Publication information
A glorious fiction debut written with exceptional acuity by an award-winning twenty-five-year-old Thai-American writer. Read a complete short story at BookBrowse.
Our Kind
: A Novel in Stories
by
Kate Walbert
Hardcover: Apr 2004
Paperback: 1 Jan 2005 Publication information
Deeply felt and richly imagined, full of compelling drama and historical authenticity, Thomas Steinbeck's stories are as memorable and rugged as the coastline that inspired them. Click the excerpt link to read a complete short story.
A Brief History of The Flood by
Jean Harfenist
Hardcover: Jun 2002
Paperback: 1 Jul 2003 Publication information
In this funny, sad and somehow good natured book Jean Harfenist explores the interface between love and dysfunction through young Lillian whose voice will stick with you long after you turn the last page.
Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today's globalized world.
The story of an American family, middle class in middle America, ordinary in every way but one. But that exception is the beating heart of this extraordinary novel.
First time novelist Vaddey Ratner captured my heart and senses in this novel based on her childhood in Cambodia. Her story transcends any news story...
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From the first page, I was drawn in by the lyrical writing of the author and mesmerized as the narrator, eight year old Raami, remembered the years...
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Trite but true, all good things must come to an end. I so wanted to keep reading the wonderful prose, the settings that let one think they are part...
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Kenn Nesbitt is new Children's Poet Laureate(Jun 12 2013) Kenn Nesbitt has been named the new Children's Poet Laureate: Consultant in Children's Poetry to the Poetry Foundation, which noted that the two-year position...
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