Literary Fiction

Daddy Emma Cline

DADDY is a brilliant collection of dark stories praised by critics around the country. These literary treasures run the gamit from an absentee father collecting his son from boarding school to a young woman selling her underwear to a stranger to a notorious guest arriving in the Southwest for rehab. Fans of The...

The Night Travelers Armando Lucas Correa

THE NIGHT TRAVELERS is a brilliant use of language that follows three generations of women from Berlin at the beginning of World War Two, to Cuba, France, and back to Berlin. It is a powerful look at the terrors and hopes of strong women.

 

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Day Michael Cunningham

DAY is a portrait of compassion, tragedy and tenderness experienced by a family that takes place on April 5,2019 - April 5, 2020, and April 5, 2022, It is a story told masterfully by a master storyteller.

 

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Boy Swallows Universe Trent Dalton

BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE is about a young boy in 1980s Brisbane, Australia trying to make it through...

The Book of Jonas Stephen Dau

THE BOOK OF JONAS is the tense account of a young boy from an unnamed  Middle Eastern country who is relocated to America. He tells a counselor of the U.S. soldier who saved his life and meets the soldier's mother when a shocking secret emerges.  

 

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Spooner Pete Dexter

SPOONER is the book Pete Dexter was born to write as he tells the story of a troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, and violent and troubled adulthood.

 

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The Sunlit Night Rebecca Dinerstein

THE SUNLIT NIGHT finds a young girl fleeing heartbreak in Manhattan and a Russian immigrant from Brooklyn meeting up near the Arctic Circle. The novel feels like a young master's touch has delivered a tale that is full of fun, love, mystery and even on occasion could pass for a travel book. This title has been...

The After Party Anton DiSclafani

THE AFTER PARTY is set in oil-rich Houston of the fifties and centers around two Texas socialites with an obsessive and euphoric relationship that is as consuming as any romance.

 

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The Wonder Emma Donoghue

THE WONDER begins with a Florence Nightingale-trained nurse going to an impoverished Irish Village to check on an eleven year-old girl who is said to have eaten nothing for four months.  The book eventually shows the intimacy between people from different worlds.

 

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Frog Music Emma Donoghue

FROG MUSIC  follows the story of a woman shot to death in a San Francisco saloon in the 1800s, and her friend, a French burlesque dancer who risks everything to bring her killer to justice. 

 

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