Multi-Period
A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life
Forgive Greg Jenner the hyperbole of his title, since “30,000 Years in a Day” would not have had the same…
Precious Things
This multi-stranded novel is more contemporary than historical, but it has several back stories that begin with a young bride…
The Storm Sister
Ally D’Aplièse is a multifaceted young woman – musician and skilled sailor – who signs on as crewmember for the…
The Muse
In her second novel (after The Miniaturist, 2014), Burton links two talented young women of different generations with the fate…
Homegoing
In the 18th century in what is now Ghana, then the Gold Coast, half-sisters are born in different villages. One…
The House by the Lake
In 2010, 29-year-old Anna Young, a successful café owner in San Francisco, is asked an unusual favor from her beloved…
The Memory of Us
England, 1961. The suicide attempt of a lonely midwife is interrupted by a boy whose mother has gone into premature…
Reader, I Married Him
As anyone with even a passing familiarity with Charlotte Brontë knows, “Reader, I married him,” is the climactic sentence of…
The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic
Jamie James examines the lives of six unconventional artists in his study of connections between art and the exotic. Drawing…
Before We Visit the Goddess
“Without education,” Sabitri writes to Tara, the granddaughter she has never met, “a woman has little chance of standing on…
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