THE INTERTWINED LIVES of several generations in a small Turkish seaside town—luminous early Orhan Pamuk.

THE CLASH OF CULTURES dramatized in this sharply witty picaresque novel of Spaniard vs. Arawak in 1520 Jamaica.

A GRIM MURDER TRIAL from 1938 New Jersey highlights the despair of the Depression and the impact of corruption.

COMPLEX, SATISFYING MYSTERY set in Margaret Maron’s truer-than-life Colleton County, North Carolina. Absorbing!

ENGROSSING HISTORY OF the many attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria, and their impact on English society.

WONDERFUL STEAMPUNKY EPIC set in a not-quite-our-Earth reminiscent of Mark Twain’s frontier, with science/magic.

DELICATE, KEENLY OBSERVED novel follows a young girl through the fracture of her family in 1970s Minnesota.

19TH CENTURY AUSTRALIA comes alive with vivid detail in this picaresque novel of a self-willed, self-made man.

BITTERSWEET, NUANCED MEMOIR of the writer’s brilliant mother and her too-early decline into dementia. B PLUS

ALL GONE
Riverhead Hardcover
2012

BITTERSWEET, NUANCED MEMOIR of the writer’s brilliant mother and her too-early decline into dementia.