In their chronicle of the Beat masters, the authors stamp their narrative with a compelling you-were-there novelistic style.

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In this novel that follows an artist’s quest to make sense of his life and failed relationships, an aging Israeli film director travels to Spain for a retrospective of his work and subsequently makes a personal pilgrimage through the people and places of his past life and work.

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In yet another tour de force novel, the award-winning author poses questions about life, love and the meaning of art.

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Suspense and quirky 17th-century research in Brazil add up to a morality tale that wrestles with fundamental questions of human life.

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Three adult siblings are forced to reassess their assumptions and beliefs about personal history and identity when a teenager’s actions throw the family into crisis.

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In the author’s latest novel, lives connect poignantly as death looms near in a North Carolina retirement community.

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Narrated by a nameless, terminally ill woman, this novel portrays the disconnect between Indian emigrants and their American-born children and the bonds that, nonetheless, tie them together.

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An homage to the muddled lives of outliers, who find themselves trying to fit in where they’ve landed.

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