This skillful debut novel explores the course of friendship after a traumatic brain injury changes things.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

This sequel to an acclaimed novel sends two main characters on a reverse journey back to Communist China.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

A cast of unusual characters populates this debut novel by a prize-winning short story writer.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

A series of loosely linked vignettes tracking the lives of a small town Iowa family, Jean Thompson’s novel The Year We Left Home also tells the story of an America coping with identity crisis and loss over the last quarter of the 20th century.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

A compelling tale of the secrets, lies, and parallel lives of two middle-class families in Atlanta.

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• Literary,

In this fairy-tale-like novel, two mental hospital patients find that love triumphs over years of mistreatment and forced separation.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

Looking beyond the shallowness of imitation for a take on the contemporary, vibrant nation.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

From a master French novelist, a lyrical tale of invention featuring an obsessive electrical engineering wizard named Gregor.

• Fiction,
• Literary,