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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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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