While ‘The Prettiest Star’ is bleak, it moves along at a clip, offering some surprises and a couple of unlikely, brave heroes.
‘Home Making’ is short on action, long on furniture and color schemes.
‘Saint X’ is a nuanced examination of class, privilege and the terrible ways that tragedy can echo forward in time.
Therese Anne Fowler’s novel finds trouble in paradise, mapping the divisions among people who think of themselves as “good.”
Kids are unpredictable. They suddenly love food they once thought disgusting. And sometimes they just might spontaneously combust.
Jami Attenberg’s characters—flawed, defensive, overwhelmed and frequently endearing—fizz off the page.
THE DUTCH HOUSE confirms what we’ve always known: Ann Patchett doesn’t write a bad book.
It’s not every verbal stunt pilot that can bring a mid-novel excursus about the differences between Webster’s Second and Third editions to a safe landing.
Greenwood’s quirky, page-turning love story is mesmerizing from its opening pages to resonant end.
Stories about the mysteries of childhood have often been at the heart of Emma Donoghue’s fiction, and so it is with Akin.
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