In the unforgiving 1838 Ohio Black Swamp, a family's apple orchard becomes the bitter battleground for a husband and wife, their legacy of division haunting their youngest son all the way to the California Gold Rush.
A Vietnam veteran, haunted by jungle horrors and political ruin, faces his wife's disappearance from their remote lakeside cabin, where dark currents from the past threaten to consume them.
On an Easter weekend of unexpected turns, a divorced sportswriter, struggling with his career and the loss of his son, lets go of his past to face an uncertain but hopeful future.
Three generations of Native American women—Rayona, Christine, and Ida—share their stories in reverse chronological order, revealing a history of love, secrets, and family ties.
A metropolitan writer confronts the unsettling freedom of a starving, unloved typist from Rio's slums, forcing a re-evaluation of misery, identity, and storytelling itself.
A WWI veteran, shaped by a boyhood snowball incident and a life of unusual influence, confronts memory, history, and myth as he finds the wonderful in the everyday.
In a quiet Tokyo cottage, a freelance couple's hushed existence is subtly transformed and then shaken by the unexpected, passing visits of a neighborhood cat.
A son reflects on his recently deceased, paranoid father, uncovering a global, generations-spanning story of philosophical ideas, criminal acts, and the lasting, if difficult, legacy of a family always at odds with the world.
A literary legend and his former lover confront their past at a festival, revealing how one choice echoed through their lives, backward in time from their reunion to their youthful passion.
In 1909 Montana, a widower's advertisement for a housekeeper brings a whistling, non-cooking woman and her learned brother into his life, changing his family and the prairie community through an unusual season of lessons and unexpected insights.
Exiled to a serene Swiss hotel, a stubbornly single romance novelist confronts her ideals and a chance at escaping spinsterhood when a pragmatic suitor offers an unexpected path.
A successful advertising man's later years are plagued by physical decay, mounting regrets, and the relentless march toward an oblivion he's been dreading since youth.
Three brothers in a Brooklyn-Puerto Rican household grow up amid their parents' raw love and brutal chaos, forming fierce bonds and enduring betrayals on their way to a singular identity.
In Depression-era Chicago, Augie March, a man with an unyielding spirit, navigates a journey through many characters and jobs, all while pursuing his own destiny.
Plagued by an unshakeable smoking habit and a perpetually overthinking mind, neurotic Zeno Cosini hilariously chronicles his self-delusions, disastrous courtships, and unexpected domestic bliss in a quest for a cure that only amplifies his charmingly flawed humanity.
In the brutal 17th-century Canadian wilderness, a Huron warrior, his Iroquois captive, and a Jesuit missionary navigate a violent clash of cultures and beliefs as empires collide.
In a London devastated by a zombie virus that only affects adults, a group of teens, including best friends Jack and Ed, must navigate betrayal, dwindling hope, and the terrifying threat of their zombified elders, all while questioning the true motives of the lone adult who claims immunity.
Haunted by his brother's sudden death, a guilt-ridden teenager finds solace and a path to redemption in the 'Church of the Second Chance,' where forgiveness requires sacrifice and love.
In 1930s London, a poet's defiant war against the 'money-god' spirals into a darkly comic descent through poverty, petulance, and the inescapable lure of the very conformity he despises.
A giant Dog-Woman rescues a foundling on the Thames. This novel takes readers through time and bawdy adventure, exploring love, truth, and the fluid nature of reality.
