Rebecca Stropoli
Content by Rebecca Stropoli
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Best known for his nonfiction work (including Cod and Salt), writer Mark Kurlansky tries his hand at fiction in this debut novel, a tale that teems with life from the first page.
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More Than It Hurts You, Darin Strauss' third novel (after Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy), covers a wide range of timely issues, from child abuse and the foster care syst
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With a lyrical voice and vibrant descriptions, Carolina De Robertis brings the stories of three generations of dynamic women and a period in Latin American history to life in her impressive debut n
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Readers, meet your narrator: Agnes Shanklin, a plain, unmarried schoolteacher of 40 living in Ohio at the end of World War I.
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Joshua Henkin ably illustrates the complexity of family ties in his latest novel, The World Without You.The bucolic, picturesque haven of the Berkshires, in Western Massachuse
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With The Next Right Thing, author Dan Barden mixes up a cocktail of grit and sentimentality infused with mystery, humor, A.A.
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Is it possible not only to forgive but to befriend the person who murdered someone you love?
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In The Courage Consort, Michel Faber's latest literary offering, readers are drawn into three very different worlds with one prevailing theme the abject loneliness that often marks the
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Miranda Beverly-Whittemore was only 25 years old when she wrote The Effects of Light, her transfixing debut novel about art, ethics and family truths.
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How well can we know the people who we think are the closest to us? And how well can they know us?
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In Chris Bohjalian's absorbing new novel, Before You Know Kindness, a family's outwardly serene existence is shattered by one violent moment on an ill-fated summer night.
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In her first novel, MacKenzie Bezos writes in the voice of Luther Albright, a middle-aged man struggling to cope with fissures in his home both literal and figurative.
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With Going to See the Elephant, first-time novelist Rodes Fishburne has created a fantastical world that exists in the middle of San Francisco.
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Friendship between women can be a complex thing, with break-ups, make-ups and heartache to rival that of any romantic union.
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Middle-aged death-metal rock star Jude Coyne doesn't know what he's in for when he buys a Floridian ghost from an online auction site to add to his collection of ghoulish curiosities, which
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How often do we contemplate what it is that makes us human? Caught up in the daily minutiae of our lives, many of us lose sight of the true miracle that is our existence.
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Shades of the Unabomber case and the Richard Jewell Olympic bombing debacle color A Person of Interest, Susan Choi's engrossing third novel.
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In Porter Shreve's follow-up to his acclaimed debut The Obituary Writer, he effectively writes in the voice of a woman coping with an empty nest and the remarriage of her ex-husband to
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Not much happens in Strangers, British author Anita Brookner’s 24th novel; it’s the quiet tale of a man facing his mortality and wrestling with regret, and much of the
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In his latest novel, Skeletons at the Feast, Chris Bohjalian takes his readers to World War II-era Europe in a gripping tale told from various viewpoints.
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It is something of a literary tradition to portray the small town as a breeding ground for dark secrets that emerge to shatter its innocuous facade.
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In recent years, many in the literary world have declared the short story to be a format that, while not dead, is in decidedly poor health.
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Keith Donohue, author of The Stolen Child and Angels of Destruction, now brings readers a tale that is an intriguing and ambitious mix of psychological mystery, dark comedy, histo
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"The Stolen Child" was a poem about changelings written by William Butler Yeats in 1889; now, this novel by the same name expands on the theme in an enchanting way.
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In her third novel, following her smash debut White Teeth (written when she was only 21) and well-received sophomore effort Autograph Man, Zadie Smith takes readers inside the minds
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Tom Perrotta explores the politics of suburbia once again in The Abstinence Teacher, an absorbing tale that pits the secular against the saved.
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“No matter where you go, there you are.”
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One mark of a good book is that you are truly sorry to say goodbye to the characters when you come to the final page.
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In her debut novel, The Summer We Fell Apart, author Robin Antalek explores the complexity of family ties in an unflinching and realistic manner, without a hint of sentimentality.
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