Genre Fiction

Ah, the mother-teenage daughter relationship: anxiety, pressure, sullen silence, forced cheerfulness, eye-rolling, snippy comments, guilt, fear, and a few precious moments of sweetness.

Extravagant and demonic, the second novel by Christian Kracht opens with the most precise description of the act of committing hari-kari that you will ever read.  Precision is central to The De

“a rambling, innovative, cerebral, and wildly entertaining ‘trippy’ journey that drives home essential questions while providing none of the answers . . .”

“Tense and dramatic . . . amusing and uplifting. This is a superb, timeless book.”

Jacinda Bourne and her two sisters supported themselves and to some extent their amiable but financially reckless Uncle Ernest, as partners in the Bourne Matrimonial Agency.

Though listed as a mystery, The Shades by Evgenia Citkowitz is a challenging novel to classify.

“as satisfying as a plate of General Tso’s chicken after a night of drinking.”

“An outstanding novel that is riveting and unforgettable, gut-wrenching and evocative.”

Raney Moore is no slacker. The morning after discovering that her seemingly wonderful husband Aaron has had an affair, she unleashes the hounds of hell on him.

Caleb Johnson’s debut, Treeborne, is a story about a family living in Elberta, Alabama, where a parcel of land, 700 acres in total, arouses deep emotions as it’s about to be flooded over w

Martha Weisberg lives a carefully crafted existence. Her days run together one like another and she finds this predictability comforting.

“a delightful fantasy about the woman who became one of the United Kingdom’s most famous monarchs”