Downloadable Guide for Group Discussion and Classroom use “India’s finest writer in English.” — The Independent “Desai has a remarkable eye . . . for the things that give life texture.” — The New York Times “Anita Desai is one of the most brilliant and subtle writers ever to have described the meeting of [...]
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While They're At War by Kristin Henderson
About the Book “Kristin Henderson . . . gives us the truth from the homefront in While They’re at War, a revealing and nonpartisan look at the military families behind the headlines. Fair warning: Even the joyful reunions can make you cry.” — Parade In this honest and heart-rending account, Kristin Henderson brings to [...]
The Tender Land by Kathleen Finneran
The Tender Land is a love story unlike any other. In her remarkable debut, Kathleen Finneran renders powerfully the emotional, spiritual, and physical terrain of familial relationships — their closeness and disconnection, their intimacy and estrangement, and their ultimate resilience. The Finnerans — parents and five children — are a seemingly ordinary family until [...]
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
A Conversation with Timothy Egan Why a book on the Dust Bowl now? The story of the people who lived through the nation’s hardest economic depression and its worst weather event is one of the great untold stories of the Greatest Generation. To me, there was an urgency to get this story now because [...]
An American Requiem by James Carroll
Downloadable Guide for Group Discussion and Classroom Use “Told with integrity and style, this is a moving account of the generational strains of the Vietnam era, and the timeless agonies of fathers and sons.” —The New Yorker In this dramatic, intimate, and tragic memoir, James Carroll recovers a time when parents could no longer [...]
Womenfolks by Shirley Abbott
“Wonderful and important.” — Pat Conroy “Regardless of where we are born, Womenfolks gives us the courage and energy to ask who we really are.” — Boston Globe About the Book In a captivating tribute to the mothers and daughters of the South, Shirley Abbott combines personal memoir with meditation on family, myth and [...]
Seek the Living by Ashley Warlick
“[A] gemlike novel about a Southern family . . . Original and surprising on page after page, it is a gift of language from an extraordinary writer.” — Raleigh News & Observer About the Book Set in the new South, Seek the Living is a beautiful novel about the allegiances within families — the [...]
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
About The Book of Salt “A lush, fascinating, expansive first novel about exile.” — New York Times “An irresistible, scrupulously engineered confection that weaves together history, art and human nature . . . Truong has, after much deliberation, cultivated a veritable feast.” — Los Angeles Times “[He] came to us through an advertisement that [...]
The Guru of Love by Samrat Upadhyay
About The Guru of Love From the acclaimed author of Arresting God in Kathmandu, The Guru of Love is the engrossing story of a fevered love triangle set in contemporary Nepal. Ramchandra, a quiet math teacher, reluctantly enters into an adulterous relationship, and soon his double lives disastrously converge. Ramchandra finds himself trapped — [...]
Torch by Cheryl Strayed
“A deeply compelling, wonderfully crafted story about a journey into, through, and past grief.” — Elizabeth Berg About the Book “The doctor didn’t say cancer — at least she didn’t hear him say it. She heard him say oranges and peas and radishes and ovaries and lungs and liver.” So begins Torch, the story [...]
