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Jane Gardam
Crusoe's Daughter
Crusoe’s Daughter is Jane Gardam’s favorite among her novels, in part because it draws upon her own background. Like Polly Flint, Gardam’s mother was the daughter of a sea captain and grew up with a voracious love of language but no formal education. -
Seth Greenland
The Angry Buddhist
This is the perfect combination of people and place for Seth Greenland, one of America’s finest satirists. The Angry Buddhist swirls together the character-derived humor of an Elmore Leonard tale with the clear-eyed suspense of a James M. Cain noir. It convincingly explores mendacity in its many modern... -
Thad Ziolkowski
Wichita
"Flat out intelligence, lucid prose, and a stunning sense of American tragedy, make Thad Ziolkowski's WICHITA a wild ride of a read and the perfect storm of a book."--Alice Sebold -
Angelika Schrobsdorff
You Are Not Like Other Mothers
A sweeping epic that spans the first half of the twentieth century, a novel praised as a German Gone with the Wind, You Are Not Like Other Mothers will delight and surprise readers from the first page to the last. -
Amara Lakhous
Divorce Islamic Style
A literary commedia all'italiana about love and terrorism from the author of Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio -
Diego De Silva
I Hadn't Understood
Vincenzo Malinconico has a chance to make a fresh start. The Italian Mob is willing to help. -
Steve Erickson
These Dreams of You
"Erickson expertly weaves together themes of music, politics, and idealism in a modern story where preconceptions are outdated."—Publishers Weekly -
Audrey Schulman
Three Weeks in December
Evoking both Barbara Kingsolver and Andrea Barrett, this enthralling fiction, wise and generous, explores some of the crucial social and cultural challenges that, over the years, have come to shape our world. -
Beryl Bainbridge
The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
Subversive, sinister and marvelously vivid, Beryl Bainbridge’s great last novel evokes a nation on the brink of self-destruction with artful brilliance.
