| Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain From the author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, this National Book Award finalist is a razor sharp satire set in Texas during the American war in Iraq about the gaping disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. A Catch-22 for our times. Read More… |
Richard Ford Pulitzer Prize winning Ford delivers a haunting novel about the cataclysmic event that undoes one teenage boy’s family, and the stark and unforgiving landscape in which he attempts to find grace, only to confront violence in its purest form. Read More… |
Kevin Wilson Filled with endless creativity, vibrant prose and sharp humor, The Family Fang is a novel about the art of surviving a masterpiece of dysfunction: a family of demanding, brilliant oddballs. In the tradition of Wes Anderson’sThe Royal Tenenbaums. Read More… |
Isabel Allende An international bestseller, this suspenseful contemporary coming of age novel is narrated by an American teenage girl who falls into a life of drugs, crime, and prostitution and is forced to flee for her life. Read More… |
Louise Erdrich This 2012 National Book Award winner is the story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. Read More… |
Russell Banks In the tradition of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, Russell Banks’ quintessential novel of Bone, a disaffected homeless youth living on the edge of society, redefines the young modern anti-hero. Read More… |
David Wroblewski A riveting saga about a young, mute boy and the family he is forced to flee from when catastrophe strikes. “A mesmerizing read, audaciously envisioned as classic Americana.” – Janet Maslin, The New York Times. Read More… |
Eleanor Henderson The New York Times bestselling, multigenerational drama that reveals the emotional tangle of births, deaths, loves and losses that shape families, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 80s. Read More… |