A PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS FROM THIS BOOK WILL GO TO JAPAN DISASTER RELIEF
A major literary sensation is back with a quietly stunning tour de force about the redemptive power of love.
While The Lake shows off many of the features that have made Banana Yoshimoto famous—a cast of vivid and quirky characters, simple yet nuanced prose, a tight plot with an upbeat pace—it’s also one of the most darkly mysterious books she’s ever written.
It tells the tale of a young woman who moves to Tokyo after the death of her mother,
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Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce?
It’s the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different guys,
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In Chicago’s Ukrainian Village, Nadya Lysenko has built her life on a
foundation of secrets. When she was sixteen, Nadya snuck out of her
house in Western Ukraine to meet a fortuneteller in the woods. She never
expected it to be the last time she would see her family.
Decades later, Nadya continues to be haunted by the death of her parents
and sisters. The myths and magic of her childhood are still a part of
her reality: dreams unite friends across time and space, house spirits
misplace keys and glasses,
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Julienne Ashby, 24, must change her pampered ways after her father, a prominent businessman in Natchez, Mississippi, loses their fortune and family home to a bad gambling habit in 1850. Like a fish out of water, she aims to refit their one remaining possession, an old riverboat, in hopes of making a profit and restoring the Cuvier name along the mighty Mississippi.
Desperate for help in doing the restoration work, prideful Julienne hires Dallas Bronte, a humiliated captain whose drinking problem stopped his water ways many years ago. Despite initial success, the struggles they will face with other ship owners are almost as challenging as the fiery feelings –
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The acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone
returns with a provocative new novel that illuminates the shadowed
edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable
results…
Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, the young man at
the center of Russell Banks’s uncompromising and morally complex new
novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known
in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time
for a liaison with an underage girl,
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The year is 1968 and the Vietnam War is at its height. William
Carson, a World War II veteran teaching in a small New England Prep
School, has for more than two decades been haunted by nightmares whose
content he has never shared with his wife, Anne, or their two sons,
Joshua, a Marine on active duty in Vietnam, and Andrew, an ROTC college
senior bound for active duty following graduation. When Joshua is
reported missing in combat, the web of secrets and denial that has kept
the family together for more than twenty years begins to unravel as
Anne and William face the possible loss of their sons,
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