• Short-listed for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
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“A Brooklyn-by-way-of-Bangladesh Royal Tenenbaums.”—The Denver Post
A vibrant debut novel, set in Brooklyn and Bangladesh, follows three young women and one family struggling to make peace with secrets and their past
For as long as she can remember, Ella has longed to feel at home. Orphaned as a child after her parents’ murder, and afflicted with hallucinations at dusk, she’s always felt more at ease in nature than with people.
Madam, Will You Talk blends biting description with sheer terror as only Mary Stewart can. Charity Selborne, a lovely war widow, and her irreverent artist friend, Louise Cray, arrive in the South of France expecting a conventional holiday. The vistas of Provence delight them, and Charity is pleased to meet a young man of thirteen who is having trouble with his dog. He introduces himself and Charity is charmed—until she senses a terrible maturity behind his grave eyes, and shortly hears the rumors about his father. From this point on the tension mounts steadily until it reaches the breaking point.
Kit Noonan is an unemployed art historian with
twins to help support and a mortgage to pay—
and a wife frustrated by his inertia. Raised by a
strong-willed, secretive single mother, Kit has
never known the identity of his father—a mystery
that his wife insists he must solve to move forward
with his life. Out of desperation, Kit goes to the
mountain retreat of his mother’s former husband,
Jasper, a take-no-prisoners outdoorsman. There,
in the midst of a fierce blizzard, Kit and Jasper confront memories of the
bittersweet decade when their families were joined.
Broke and knocked up, Mattie Wallace has got all
her worldly possessions crammed into six giant
trash bags and nowhere to go. Try as she might,
she really is turning into her late mother, a broken
alcoholic who never met a bad choice she didn’t
make.
When Mattie gets news of a possible inheritance left
by a grandmother she’s never met, she jumps at this one last chance to turn
things around. Leaving the Florida Panhandle, she drives eight hundred
miles to her mother’s birthplace—the tiny town of Gandy,
From the author of the widely acclaimed debut
novel Seating Arrangements, winner of the Dylan
Thomas Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book
Prize for First Fiction: a gorgeously written, fiercely
compelling glimpse into the passionate, political
world of professional ballet and its magnetic hold
over two generations.
Astonish Me is the irresistible story of Joan, a
ballerina whose life has been shaped by her relationship with the worldfamous
dancer Arslan Rusakov, whom she helps defect from the Soviet
Union to the United States.
From the acclaimed author of The Bones of
You comes a haunting and heartbreaking new
psychological thriller that is both a masterpiece of
suspense and a powerful rumination on lost love.
“I was fourteen when I fell in love with a goddess…”
So begins the testimony of Noah Calaway, an
ex-lawyer with a sideline in armchair criminal
psychology. Now living an aimless life in an
inherited cottage in the English countryside, Noah is haunted by the
memory of the beguiling young woman who left him at the altar sixteen
years earlier.
