The author of the highly acclaimed, bestselling novel The Uninvited Guests returns with a captivating coming of age story told by Amy and Lan, two children whose journey from innocence to moving experience is shaped by their families'...
Literary fiction
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Author:Jones, SadieSummary: - Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:
A communist revolution followed by a dictatorship is enacted when the animals of an English farm drive out the human owner and take over. Amply broad, cleverly conceived and delightfully written.
- Author:Baldwin, JamesSummary:
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and America in the 1950s. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz musician...
- Author:Bergen, DavidSummary:
Away from the Dead is set in the chaotic times of the Russian revolution, and traces the lives of various characters connected through love and family and loyalty. The novel follows the lives of a bookseller south of Kiev who deserts...
- Author:Chong, CorinnaSummary:
Longlister for the Giller Prize. The slow-burning, deeply felt story of a social outcast reckoning with the wounds of her past. Regina is a socially awkward loner who is content to live a life withdrawn from everyone except her...
- Author:Lacey, CatherineSummary:
When X-an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter-falls dead in her office, her widow, CM, wild with grief and refusing everyone's good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X...
- Author:Torres, JustinSummary:
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction A Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, Time, BookPage A Must-Read: The New York Times, Time, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, Boston Herald, Literary Hub, The Rumpus...
- Author:Evanson, Tawhida TanyaSummary:
In this sweeping, allusive novel, the celebrated poet, dervish, and oral storyteller Tawhida Tanya Evanson comes to terms with what it means to stand on one's own two feet in an uncertain world. The acclaimed Antiguan-Canadian artist...
- Author:Macneil, BeatriceSummary:
Shunned as an outsider and mistreated due to an undiagnosed learning disability, the young and imaginative Mari-Jen Delene retreats into silence. Around her, the fictional community of Ste. Noire, Cape Breton, hosts a vividly drawn cast...
- Author:Wilson, K.R.Summary:
When King Priam's pregnant daughter was fleeing the sack of Troy, Stan was there. When Jesus of Nazareth was beaten and crucified, Stan was there - one cross over. Stan has been a Hittite warrior, a Roman legionnaire, a mercenary for...
- Author:Kipling, RudyardSummary:
This wonderful classic combines three unbeatable elements: a sea story, lively and dynamic characters, and a protagonist who undergoes a transformation. Harvey Cheyne is the pampered son of a multimillionaire who falls off an ocean...
- Author:Ford, April L.Summary:
Margot Wright has led a deliberate life. At 18, she left her unusual and abusive family situation and never looked back, and then two years later she devoted herself wholly to Estelle Coté, her first and only love. But now, at 45,...
- Author:Taylor, Drew HaydenSummary:
On the cusp of becoming teenagers, Ralph, his sister Shelley, and their friend William, befriend Danielle, an odd girl in their school. She draws an extraordinary horse in a competition created by Ralph's mother. It's the kind of...
- Author:Rechy, JohnSummary:
When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac,...
- Author:Greenwell, GarthSummary:
This program is read by the author. In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deepens his exploration of foreignness, obligation, and desire Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in...
- Author:Fleming, AnneSummary:
A thrilling literary-historical novel with a modern twist, in the vein of Fingersmith by Sarah Waters and Fayne by Ann-Marie MacDonald. Curiosity begins when a present-day historian discovers a cache of five seventeenth-century...
- Author:Reid, Taylor JenkinsSummary:
A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup. “I devoured Daisy Jones & The Six in a day, falling head over heels for...
- Author:Liew, Jamie Chai YunSummary:
Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award winner: an Asian woman traces her mother's past journey in order to learn who she really is and where she belongs. When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family,...
- Author:Cunningham, MichaelSummary:
NATIONAL BESTELLER - An "exquisite" ( The Boston Globe ) exploration of love and loss, the struggles and limitations of family life-and how we all must learn to live together and apart-from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of...
- Author:Itani, FrancesSummary:
Elegantly written and profoundly moving, Frances Itani's debut novel is a tale of virtuosity and power. Set on the eve of the Great War, Deafening spans two continents and the lives of a young deaf woman and her beloved husband. Frances...
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