Introduction When Jane Alison was a child, her family met another that seemed like its mirror: a father in the Foreign Service, a beautiful mother, and two little girls. The youngest girls from each family — one of them Jane — even shared a birthday. With so much in common, the two families became almost [...]
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The Peabody Sisters by Megan Marshall
• Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Biography • Winner, Francis Parkman Prize awarded by The Society of American Historians • Winner, Mark Lynton History Prize About the Book Fascinating, insightful, and wholly engrossing, The Peabody Sisters is a landmark biography of three women who made American intellectual history. Though theirs may not be household names, [...]
Ex Utero by Laurie Foos
Ex Utero Laurie Foos ISBN:9780156004640 About the book: Laurie Foos — ”the unholy love child of Franz Kafka and Erica Jong” (Philadelphia Inquirer) — gives us a “wonderfully deranged and stunning” novel (Fay Weldon, Los Angeles Times Book Review) about the hullabaloo that ensues when a woman somehow loses her uterus at the shopping mall. [...]
