Tayari Jones’ latest novel, Kin, is set in the 1950s and 1960s and tells the story of Vernice and Annie, who call themselves “cradle friends” […] Read More
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Best known for Atonement—shortlisted for the Booker in 2001 and adapted into an Academy Award–winning film in 2007—Ian McEwan is back with another layered, thought-provoking […] Read More
John Irving’s latest novel, Queen Esther, opens with four-year-old Esther dropped at an orphanage with little information about herself, aside from her Jewish heritage. In […] Read More
Inés lives under the weight of expectations—from her family, her husband, and the Catholic Church. In the end, each betrays her. The youngest of four […] Read More
Fans of Wally Lamb will feel right at home in The River is Waiting, where the angst and raw humanity of Corby Ledbetter echo Lamb’s […] Read More
With The Elements, John Boyne delivers another masterfully crafted story, rich with complexity and nuance—just like life itself. Told in four separate yet interconnected narratives, […] Read More
I was just a few pages into Lee Martin’s The Evening Shades when I felt its similarities to Kent Haruf’s Our Souls at Night. And […] Read More
I’ll Come to You by Rebecca Kauffman takes readers through a year in the life of one family —spanning from post Christmas 1994 to Christmas […] Read More
In Susan Rieger’s recent novel, Like Mother, Like Mother, three generations of women grapple with what it means to be a woman: wife, mother, and […] Read More
There are some authors whose work you can’t help but return to, and for me, Elizabeth Strout is one of them. Her newest novel, Tell […] Read More