Beginning in Iowa in 1973 and ending in Iowa in 2003, this story follows four siblings through their own family’s upheavals and also the national turmoil, from Vietnam to Iraq. Thompson uses illuminating details to describe the American conflict between wanting to move on and wanting to be home.
Trillin: humorist, essayist, biographer, novelist, poet, observer of human nature, eager eater. This wonderful book collects and sorts the very best of everything. Smart and tart, Trillin is a delight to read.
Performance artists Camille and Caleb Fang have always used their children as actors in the scenes of chaos they create in order to record public reaction. The children, now grown, return home and their parents disappear. Life or art?
Witty and thought-provoking, this book examines the history and purposes of gossip. Epstein balances scholarship and humor as he has with his other titles, including SNOBBERY, AMBITION and ENVY.
These thirteen stories describe, as one reviewer said, “the hapless, the hopeless, and the helpless.” Boston-area author Almond varies his tone from hilarious to dark in these ironic tales of alienated characters.
Some years ago, Schwartz wrote RESERVATION ROAD, about a hit-and-run accident and its impact on the two families involved. NORTHWEST CORNER begins twelve years later: the at-fault driver is out of prison and is suddenly contacted by the son he hasn’t seen in all that time. Is history repeating itself?
When Arthur Scott moves his family from 1960’s Detroit to small-town Kansas, he is returning to the scene of an old mystery. Long-buried secrets and new problems come to light; the harshness of farm life adds to the suspense.
