Alice Dickinson, a young advertising executive in London, decides to take time off work to research her idea for a screenplay: the true story of the scandalous, adulterous love affair that took place between a young, Amherst college faculty wife, Mabel Loomis Todd, and the college's treasurer, Austin Dickinson, in the 1880s. Austin, twenty-four years Mabel's senior and married, was the brother of the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, who ...
"Ronja von Ronne wischt das Blau vom Himmel." Georg Diez, Der Spiegel "Maja ist nicht tot. Wenn Maja gestorben ware, hatte sie mir davor Bescheid gesagt. Solche Dinge haben wir immer abgesprochen." Wenn jemand stirbt, zieht man sich schwarze Kleider an und geht zur Beerdigung. Oder man flieht gemeinsam mit seinen drei Beziehungspartnern und einer Schildkrote ans Meer. Nora entscheidet sich fur Letzteres. Als ob Polyamorie helfen wurd ...
We'd had to be cut free of our mother's womb. Abby and I were fused, you see. But here's the real kicker; Abby had the magic, I didn't. Now adults, Makeda and Abby still share their childhood home. The surgery to separate the two girls left Makeda with what feels like an even worse deformity: no mojo. The daughters of a celestial demigod and a human woman, Makeda and Abby were raised by their magical father. Today, Makeda has ...
After the publication of his most recent book, Alex Smyth receives a trout fly in the mail at his home address in rural Canada – with no message and no return address. It stirs a fear in him that he is being stalked, and it awakens deeply buried, inchoate memories from his childhood in Ireland, a time before he was old enough to understand the adult world around him. It also evokes the guilt that he may have murdered a man, a feeling so strong i ...
A married couple in California grapples with race, betrayal, love, and loss when their son comes home from a Guatemalan orphanage. Contemporary art museum curator Julie Cowan achieves her dream of motherhood through adoption, but her life is far from perfect. Her pathologist husband, Mark, is distracted by his gorgeous, young intern, while her hotshot new museum director boss doubts Julie’s curatorial chops. And Julie’s six-year-old son ...
