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Hurry Down Sunshine
Written by Michael Greenberg
Hurry Down Sunshine tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg's daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's sudden visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during…
Hurry Down Sunshine
Written by Michael Greenberg
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Hurry Down Sunshine tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg’s daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally’s sudden visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time…
Two Marriages
Written by Phillip Lopate
Celebrated essayist Phillip Lopate proves himself a master of the short novel form in this inspired pairing of novellas portraying two less-than-perfect unions.The Stoic’s Marriage chronicles the life of newlyweds Gordon and Rita. Well-off, idle Gordon, a lifelong student of philosophy who has always had “a stunted capacity for happiness,”…
A Map of Home
Written by Randa Jarrar
Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), and her family’s last flight to Texas. Nidali mixes humor with a sharp, loving…
A Week in October
Written by Elizabeth Subercaseaux, Translated by Marina Harss
A mystery novel where the heart is the culprit and the reader is the detective sleuthing for two truths—the story’s and their own
A Week in October is a thriller for those of us who usually prefer a good love story that you just can’t put down. In other words…
The Ethics of the Lie
Written by Jean-Michel Rabaté, Translated by Suzanne Verderber
Pinocchio knows: the unconscious knowledge of the conscious lie.
From little white lies to the deepest, darkest ones, it is an accepted fact that we—like the boy who cried wolf—lie very often, at least three times a day. The thesis of this erudite and entertaining book is that lies…
On a Day Like This
Written by Peter Stamm, Translated by Michael Hofmann
A new novel of artful understatement about mortality, estrangement, and the absurdity of life from the acclaimed author of Unformed Landscape and In Strange Gardens
On a day like any other, Andreas changes his life. When a routine doctor’s visit leads to an unexpected prognosis, a great yearning takes hold of…
The Open Door
Written by Elizabeth Maguire
“The story is the journey, not the destination. Or so the philosopher’s say. But this is my story, and it has a beginning, a middle, and an end….”
The Open Door is a luminous and profoundly moving novel inspired by the life of Constance Fenimore Woolson, one of the most widely-read…
Julien Parme
Written by Florian Zeller
The Catcher in the Rye with a French accent.
Even if it blows your mind, I want to tell you about this unbelievable thing that happened to me last year. I’m not bragging, but things as unbelievable as the one I’m going to tell you about don’t happen every day,…
Kafka Comes to America
Written by Steven T. Wax
A public defender’s dedicated struggle to rescue two innocent men from the recent Kafkaesque practices of our vandalized justice system
“Our government can make you disappear.” Those were the words Steven Wax never imagined he would hear himself say. In his twenty-nine years as a public defender, Wax had never…
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