Lou Suffern’s successful career demands that he be in two places at one
time—and neither of those is with his devoted wife and children. One
frigid morning Lou meets a homeless man named Gabe and buys him a cup of
coffee . . . then gives him a job—a random act of kindness that
surprises Lou most of all. But soon Gabe is meddling uncomfortably in
Lou’s life, popping up at the most inopportune times—as if Gabe actually
can be in two places at once. With Lou’s personal and professional
fates at important crossroads and Christmas looming,
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Named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a People magazine “Pick of the Week,” and an Indie Next and Midwest Connections selection, The Year We Left Home is the career-defining novel that Jean Thompson’s admirers have been waiting for: a sweeping and emotionally powerful story of a single American family during the tumultuous final decades of the twentieth century.
Stretching from the early 1970s in the Iowa farmlands to suburban Chicago and across the map of contemporary America, The Year We Left Home follows the Erickson siblings as they confront prosperity and heartbreak,
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One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through.
German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager possesses only an eighth-grade education—and a burning desire to create something beautiful. What begins as a hobby to create an easy-peeling apple for her pies becomes Hulda’s driving purpose: a time-consuming interest in plant hybridization that puts her at odds with family and community, as she challenges the early twentieth-century expectations for a simple housewife.
Through the years, seasonal floods continually threaten to erase her Woodland, Washington garden and a series of family tragedies cause even Hulda to question her focus.
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Madeline O’Shea tells people what to do with their lives. A renowned life coach, she inspires thousands of women through her thriving practice—exuding enviable confidence along with her stylish suits and sleek hair. But her confidence, just like her fashionable demeanor, is all a front.
For decades, Madeline has lived in fear of her traumatic past becoming public. Now a reporter is reinvestigating the notorious crime that put Madeline’s mother behind bars, threatening to destroy her elaborate façade. Only Madeline’s sister, Annie, and their frail grandparents know about her childhood— but lately Madeline has reason to wonder if her grandparents also have a history they’ve been keeping from her.
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From the award-winning author of The Four Seasons comes a sumptuous novel that retells The Odyssey from the point of view of Xanthe—the daughter Odysseus didn’t know existed…
Xanthe is the brave, beautiful daughter of Odysseus and Penelope—and potential heir to the throne of Ithaca. But the royal court is in upheaval. A battle is being waged inside the palace, and upstairs, Xanthe is barricaded in her chambers—her only protection against the rapacious suitors who will do anything to become king, even if it means murdering her brother and abducting her as their bride.
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