Only a year ago Isabel Moore was married, the object of adoration of her ten-year-old daughter, and thought she knew everything about her wild, extravagant, beloved best friend, Josie. But in that one short year: her husband moved out and rented his own apartment; her daughter grew into a moody insomniac; and Josie – impulsive, funny, secretive Josie – was killed behind the wheel in a single-car accident. As Isabel tries to make sense of this sh ...
Against the background of the Protestant Reformation and conflicts between England and Spain, this novel relates the rise of the House of Orange and the beginnings of Dutch nationalism. The factual history of the conflict is long and complex, but Holland tells an insightful, if small, slice of a much bigger picture, through the stories of one Dutch family. Holland brings the reader into the action, fighting alongside Jan & Hanneke against Al ...
Tributary taps interest in the current “Mormon Moment:” John Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven, the Broadway hit Book of Mormon musical, Big Love TV series, Sister Wives reality TV show, and the presidential campaigns of Mormons Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney.The author's first novel, Guest House, was an Eric Hoffer Award fiction finalist.The author has been featured in Good Morning America online, The Salt Lake Tribune and The Orego ...
2011 Best Novel, Association for Mormon letters[b]Montaigne Medal Finalist“Steven Peck has imagined a world ever-so-slightly tweaked from this real one… The Scholar of Moab explores the otherworld of nature, imagination, and mind.”—BROOKE WILLIAMS, author of Halflives What happens when a two-headed cowboy, a high school dropout, and a poet abducted by aliens come together in 1970s Moab, Utah? The Scholar of Moab, a dark- ...
The long-awaited first novel by Saskia Vogel, well known both as a translator from Swedish and a smart commentator on pornography and gender politics. Saskia was the publicist for Granta for some time and has excellent connections with countless booksellers and media. Spanish and Swedish rights have already been sold. Those publishers have likened her to Chris Kraus, Sheila Heti, Tao Lin, Mark Z. Danielewski. It’s being published simultaneous ...
It's 1971. Hal Sachs runs a used bookstore. Business isn't so great, and the store is in a part of Toronto that's about to be paved over with a behemoth expressway. And then Hal meets Lily Klein, an activist schoolteacher who'll do just about anything to stop the highway. It's love at first sight. Until it isn't. And then Hal vanishes.<br> <br> A half-century later, Hal's nephew, Aitch, waits for hi ...
It’s 1944, and a little village in rural Quebec sits quietly beside an aging mountain and an angry river. The air tastes of kelp, and the wind keeps knocking over the cross. Beside that river an eleven-year-old girl lives with her parents. Her mother is very sad, and her father has vanished because he can’t bear to look at his own daughter. You see, this little girl has suddenly sprouted a full beard. And so her mother has shut the curtains and ...
– As North Korea makes us think once again about the threat of nuclear war, it's a good moment to revisit how we got there in the first place: this novel depicts Robert Oppenheimer during the time he's working on, and completing, The Manhattan Project. – The subject does seem to be in vogue: the TV series <i>Manhattan</i> depicts that time, as well as the popular comic book series <i>The Manhattan Projects ...
• The subject of the book, Suzanne, was the author's grandmother. Having never met her, Anais Barbeau-Lavalette hired a private detective to learn more about her life, and this book is a fictionalized account of her true story. • Offers a window into the world of Quebec's Les Automatistes, a group of Quebecois artistic dissidents who helped to fuel the province's Quiet Revolution. • A translation of the acclaimed novel La femme qu ...
