In Zanesville - Jo Ann Beard
Every adolescent faces a decision that will set in motion a change that is unnamable and unknowable until it occurs. When it does, the entire world is transformed and suddenly the dreaded, fascinating...
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Judith Toomey, who has marched resolutely forward throughout her life for nearly thirty years, finally chances a glance behind her at age forty-four. When she does, she is shocked to find she has been...
View ArticleYou Are One of Them - Elliott Holt
In You Are One of Them (Penguin Press, $26.95), debut novelist Elliott Holt wastes no words and pulls no tricks, presenting two friends pulled apart by the immense forces of the Cold War and oncoming...
View ArticleThe Interestings - Meg Wolitzer
Every time I picked up my copy of The Interestings (Riverhead, $27.95) I was excited to dive back into the turbulent and fascinating lives of my new friends. The novel unfolds more like life than like...
View ArticleA Partial History of Lost Causes - Jennifer Dubois
A Partial History of Lost Causes (Dial, $16), by Jennifer Dubois, is an excellent debut novel in which a young American woman with an inherited fatal disease becomes linked to a world chess champion...
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