The Love Wife
by Gish Jen
Hardcover: Sep 2004
Paperback: Oct 2005
Powerfully evoking the contemporary American family in all its fragility and strength, Gish Jen has given us her most exuberant and accomplished novel about the new "half-half" American family.
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
Hardcover: Jun 2002
Paperback: Apr 2004
A luminous and astonishing novel that builds out of grief the most hopeful of stories. In the hands of a brilliant new writer, this story of the worst thing a family can face is transformed into a suspenseful and even funny novel about love, memory, ...
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself.
Low Country
: A Novel
by Anne River Siddons
Hardcover: Jun 1998
Paperback: May 1999
A story of personal renewal and transformation - one woman's proper Old South upbringing and expectations colliding with the new South's runaway prosperity.
Lowboy
by John Wray
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: Feb 2010
By turns suspenseful and comic, devastating and hopeful, Lowboy is a fearless exploration of youth, sex, and violence in contemporary America, seen through one boy's haunting and extraordinary vision.
The Lowland
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Hardcover: Sep 2013
Paperback: Jun 2014
Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a deeply felt novel of family ties that entangle and fray in ways unforeseen and unrevealed, of ties that ineluctably define who we are
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