Algonquin
The Road from Gap Creek
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Robert Morgan’s masterpiece, Gap Creek, came out in 1999 and was an Oprah pick. This new novel continues the story of the Richards ...Read Review
Guests on Earth
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The narrator of Lee Smith’s (Fair and Tender Ladies, The Last Girls) latest novel is thirteen in 1926, when she is admitted to ...Read Review
Is This Tomorrow
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Single mother Ava Lark is doing everything she can to raise her son alone. In the 1950s in Waltham, Massachusetts, a divorced Jewish ...Read Review
The Third Son
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Saburo and his family live in Japanese-occupied Taoyuan (Taiwan) in the 1930s. Her father has learned to adapt to the oppressors and assumed ...Read Review
The Beach at Galle Road
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Technically, The Beach at Galle Road is a collection of short stories, but they can’t be read independently of each other. Each ...Read Review
The Receptionist
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During the Fifties, Janet Groth came from the Midwest to the “Big City” of New York straight out of college. She landed a ...Read Review
The Aleppo Codex
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A codex called the Crown begins life in 930 AD Tiberius at the hand of a rabbinical scribe. It is masoretic, meaning it includes ...Read Review
Heading Out to Wonderful
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In Robert Goolrick’s second novel, Charlie Beale arrives at Brownsburg, Virginia in 1948. Beale is carrying two suitcases; one is filled with butcher ...Read Review
The Coldest Night
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It’s an old story – boy falls in love with the wrong girl and runs off to escape the longing. But Robert Olmstead’...Read Review
The Frozen Rabbi
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Starting with the humorous title, this literary, quasi-historical novel comes with its own background “chuckle track” – you won’t be able to stop ...Read Review