House Under Snow Jill Bialosky ISBN:9780156027465 About the book: This first novel by a celebrated American poet is a story of mothers and daughters, of sexual identity, and of a family disintegrating after the premature death of its patriarch. Anna Crane, soon to be married, reflects on her childhood in Ohio during the 1960s and [...]
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Hester Among the Ruins by Binnie Kirshenbaum
Hester Among the Ruins Binnie Kirshenbaum ISBN:9780156027502 About the book: History meets reality when biographer Hester Rosenfeld–very American and marginally Jewish–goes to Munich to research the life of Heinrich Falk and becomes his mistress. Born in Berlin in 1943, raised in the ruins of defeat by a generation of “murderers and cowards,” Professor Falk is [...]
Spirits of the Ordinary by Kathleen Alcalá
Spirits of the Ordinary Kathleen Alcalá ISBN:9780156005685 About the book: This “strong and finely rendered book” (Larry McMurtry) takes us to the Mexican-american border in the 1870s, conjuring up a magical tale of faith, gold, and family passions that “echoes the style of Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel” (Washington Post Book World). Winner of the [...]
Starting Out in the Evening by Brian Morton
Starting Out in the Evening Brian Morton ISBN:9780156033411 About the book: Leonard Schiller is a novelist in his seventies, a second-string but respectable talent who produced only a small handful of books. Heather Wolfe is an attractive graduate student in her twenties. She read Schiller’s novels when she was growing up and they changed her [...]
A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua
A Woman in Jerusalem A. B. Yehoshua ISBN:9780156031943 About the book: A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When [...]
Tattoo for a Slave by Hortense Calisher
Tattoo for a Slave Hortense Calisher ISBN:9780156032032 About the book: Although Hortense Calisher’s family eventually migrated north to New York City, the echoes of their days as a slave-owning family in the South still resonate with this prolific and widely acclaimed author, who in Tattoo for a Slave uncovers a part of history never before [...]
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
About the book: For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy’s sole evidence of the past is an old [...]
