DEAR AMERICAN AIRLINES
When Bennie Ford’s flight is cancelled, he finds himself stranded at Chicago’s O’Hare airport with the growing realization that he will miss his daughter’s wedding. Worse, he’s breaking their deal:…
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MS. HEMPEL CHRONICLES
Ms. Beatrice Hempel, teacher of seventh grade, is new—new to teaching, new to the school, newly engaged, and newly bereft of her idiosyncratic father. Grappling awkwardly with her newness, she…
THE LOVELY BONES
“My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.” So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is…
THE CORRECTIONS
After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson’s disease, and their…
DRY
You may not know it, but you’ve met Augusten Burroughs. You’ve seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in…
THE HOUSEKEEPER AND THE PROFESSOR
In The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa tells an intimate story about family, the nature of memory, and the poetry of mathematics. It is also, in a sense, a…