Literary Fiction

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Can a woman of 60 just be coming of age?

Better late than never.

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Many succumbed to the mesmerizing prose of Paul Auster 40 years ago when he was writing about his emotionally distant father. Auster was then only 35.

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“above all, The Vulnerables, like many of Sigrid Nunez’s other exceptional writings, is about what it means to be human.”

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“Amanda Peters writes with beautiful simplicity. What a joy to read fiction that isn’t cluttered with unnecessary twists and turns and verbiage.”

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this compelling novel explores important themes such as colonialism, friendship, religion, and the meaning of ‘doing good.’”

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“a revelation about the cost and sometimes benefit of being flawed humans who care about others and struggle to find a way forward.”

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The House of Doors is a fascinating, beautiful book.

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The Caretaker stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the multiple award-winning books in Ron Rash’s impressive body of work.”

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This richly textured narrative whipsaws the reader between the 14th and 21st centuries.

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The Fraud is a brilliant pastiche. It is clever, often entertaining, well-researched . . .”

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There is something to be said about a book that has survived the test of time. Sweetbitter was first published in 1995 by Broken Moon Press.

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Sean Michaels was the winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his debut novel Us Conductors.

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graceful and eloquent and compelling.”

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"The turnabout in Dubus’ new book is a realization by Lowe that the pit is of his own making, and he has to climb out of it himself—via acts of kindness and consideration."

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Readers and critics alike know that Paul Murray is a natural storyteller.

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The first of Ebru Ojen’s works to be translated from Turkish to English, Lojman conducts an unflinching taxonomy of a family’s descent to oblivion.

With a truly imaginative structure, Alice Hoffman delves into what has become her trademark theme of magic.

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Richard Kluger’s Hamlet’s Children is a fantastic piece of historical fiction that is so believable one would think that the story is actually true. The author’s style is unique.

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"biting humor . . . a sharp send-up of academic life . . ."

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A beautiful woman with a sordid past, Arabella Yarrington began her ascent into the highest levels of society from the depths of a ramshackle cabin in Alabama where she lived with her widowed mothe

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“Richard Russo once again brings to life a world of closely connected, interdependent-in-spite-of-themselves characters who feel remarkably familiar and gut-bustingly real.”

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“The structure of Tom Lake is wonderfully measured as Patchett weaves the fine details of dual timelines together. . . .

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“Hadley’s understanding of her characters is complemented by her clear and lucid prose.”

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At first glance, Patrick DeWitt’s latest novel, The Librarianist, seems like yet another heart-warming curmudgeon-rediscovers-his-humanity story (see A Man Called Ove or The S

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