Literary
City of Fiction
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In early 20th-century China, Lin Xiangfu appears in the town of Xizhen carrying his young daughter and begging nursing mothers in the town ...Read Review
The Rarest Fruit
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In 1829, a boy is born into enslavement on the French island of Bourbon. His mistress gifts him to her brother Ferréol, a ...Read Review
Paradise Once
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On the cusp of “discovery,” a handful of Caribbean Taíno people must flee a Spanish massacre to start anew in Olive Senior’...Read Review
Eden’s Clock (The American Novels)
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Clockmaker Frederick Heigold is adrift after his beloved wife’s unexpected death. When a letter arrives hiring him to repair the clock on ...Read Review
American Sky
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Montana in the 1960s and ’70s. Luc Ross is finishing the last two years of high school and beginning college. He goes to ...Read Review
At Last
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Helene Simonauer and Evelyn Turner are two completely different people. Though they have Judaism in common, their attachments to it are as different ...Read Review
Gloria
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The pulsating rhythm of one spring day in New York in 1970 echoes throughout the life of Gloria and across two generations. The imprint ...Read Review
Days of Light
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The days of light are April Easter holidays over decades, beginning in 1938. Ivy, the daughter of Cressingdon, an idyllic country house in Sussex, ...Read Review
Angel Down
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World War I is hideously miserable for all its combatants, but even worse for Private Cyril Bagger and his four woebegone junior enlisted ...Read Review
Maria La Divina
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This fictionalized biography of opera diva Maria Callas (1923-1977) follows her life beginning with her difficult childhood in Astoria, New York. Her mother, ...Read Review
