In the English village of Black Swan Green, thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor experiences a year of Cold War worries, first loves, and his parents' crumbling marriage, all while secretly writing poetry about life and change.
In a society where women are veiled and silenced, two Afghan women a century apart live as boys to gain forbidden freedoms, only to face their true identities when womanhood arrives.
After decades of sacrifice, Helen Knightly's life falls apart over a single day as she confronts an unthinkable act, revealing the dark web of devotion and hate binding her family.
An aging abstract expressionist, haunted by his past and a secret in his potato barn, confronts human creation when a persistent widow unearths his life story.
In the public eye of 1998 America, a classics professor's carefully built life falls apart, revealing a fifty-year secret about identity, race, and the American dream.
In the unforgiving 1929 North Carolina mountains, a ruthless timber empress, barren and brutal, wages a deadly war against her husband's illegitimate son, unraveling their empire and their passionate, violent marriage.
In 1930s Mexico, a whisky-soaked, morally compromised priest, hunted by an anti-clerical government, grapples with his duty and his sins as he faces an almost certain trap to hear a dying man's confession.
A 'timequake' makes humanity relive a dreadful decade of lost free will. Vonnegut’s satire examines memory, suicide, and reading through his recurring sci-fi writer, Kilgore Trout.
From the surprising spark of conception, Ruby Lennox unspools a century of English life, untangling her family's knotted secrets with a wry wit and an insatiable curiosity.
After a 1947 Maine wildfire destroys her home and leaves her husband's fate unknown, a pregnant woman finds new independence and unexpected freedoms in the ashes, only to face a greater test of her strength.
During the Siege of Sarajevo, a cellist plays defiant music, inspiring a sniper, a water-bearer, and a hungry man to reclaim their humanity in a war-torn city.
At a failing ad agency, quirky colleagues navigate corporate decline with gossip, forbidden romances, and elaborate pranks, all while their 'work' shrinks to a mysterious pro-bono campaign.
When Jesus's mummified body appears in a roadside zoo, a clairvoyant redefines spirituality with a flea circus, and Western civilization unravels through a psychedelic lens of fertility worship and existential inquiry.
In a secluded Polish village, an eccentric astrologer and animal lover embarks on a personal crusade to uncover a series of bizarre murders, convinced the perpetrators are not human and that only she can decipher the celestial clues.
A quiet elementary school teacher's hidden artistic dreams turn into a dangerous obsession when she falls for a captivating, bohemian family, only to face a devastating betrayal from her muse.
A psychiatrist's ordered life shatters when a renowned painter's violent obsession with a 19th-century French Impressionist mystery pulls him into a labyrinth of lost loves, artistic genius, and historical tragedy spanning generations and continents.
As a dying clock repairer nears his end, his mind turns to his poor Maine childhood, his epileptic peddler father, and his mad preacher grandfather, connecting time, nature, and old longings.
A cynical Vietnam veteran and college professor predicts society's hilarious and horrifying collapse, all while trying to keep his chaotic life and the bizarre events at Tarkington College from spiraling out of control.
As Marian gets ready for a seemingly normal marriage, her body rebels, turning her fiancé and the wedding plans into a growing, unbearable nightmare of societal pressure.
Four city men on a Georgia whitewater canoe trip find their adventure shatter into a fight for survival against the wilderness and human evil, forcing one to become the hunter to save them from their choices.
