After the Civil War, a young speaker becomes the focus of an ideological and romantic conflict between a determined Boston suffragist and her conservative Southern cousin.
Thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley, a quiet observer of the Puget Sound's hidden life, finds his world turned upside down when a giant squid washes ashore, forcing him to navigate newfound fame, the complexities of adolescence, and the shifting tides of his own family and identity.
In post-crash Cork, an accidental murder by a returning matriarch starts a chain reaction, connecting a teenage drug dealer, a gangster, and a prostitute in the city's dark, funny underworld.
When a white liberal family flees the collapse of apartheid cities to their Black servant's ancestral village, their roles reverse, revealing the unspoken power dynamics that bind them.
Alexie's collection shows the struggles of Native Americans navigating different cultures, from a Spokane feminist saving white women to a homeless man reclaiming his grandmother's regalia, with honesty and powerful writing.
Outside an abbey, a lay community's spiritual quest turns chaotic when a rediscovered bell tolls for a returning wife, a confronted leader, and a wise Abbess, all facing salvation, human weakness, and the fight between good and evil.
In a remote Andean village plagued by disappearances, a jaded corporal hunts for Shining Path guerrillas while the town whispers of ancient cannibalistic rituals, all set against a backdrop of surreal love stories and Peru's violent history.
A group of Manx smugglers, a reverend seeking Eden, and a doctor with disturbing theories encounter the tragic history of Tasmanian Aborigines in a 19th-century story of faith, science, and colonial conquest.
On an 18th-century slave ship, a doctor, a merchant's son, and a desperate crew create a hidden community in the Florida wilderness, only to face a relentless pursuit of revenge.
During the 1918 flu pandemic, a guard in an isolated Pacific Northwest mill town turns away a sick soldier, sparking a moral crisis that threatens to destroy the community's utopian ideals.
In the summer of 1984, an Ohio town's invitation to the devil brings a mysterious boy named Sal, whose presence reveals the community's deepest fears and the true nature of good and evil.
A child prodigy, raised on ancient languages and Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai,' looks for his absent father, forcing him to balance his ordered intellectual world with the messy realities of human emotion.
A child's desperate act to preserve her idyllic Irish life unravels into a lifetime of misunderstanding and unspoken grief, forever altering the fates of those she loves.
A nihilistic spree killer kidnaps a self-important Hollywood director, forcing him to confront the real-world consequences of his violent art as their hostage crisis becomes a twisted, live-broadcasted spectacle.
A journalist's bad plan to smuggle heroin from Vietnam to California traps him and his wife in a cycle of betrayal, violence, and drug-fueled paranoia.
Fifteen years after their pop group broke up, three former bandmates uncover the secrets behind their star's suicide, exposing the harsh reality of celebrity.
An Israeli mother, desperate to avoid news of her son's death in battle, hikes through the Galilee with her estranged former lover, telling him her son's life story to keep him alive through words.
Through the lives of five Americans and appearances by historical figures, "The 42nd Parallel" shows a nation entering the 20th century, revealing the spirit of a young country about to change.
A Nigerian writer returns home to Lagos, navigating the city's chaotic energy, confronting a place both familiar and foreign as he tries to understand his past, his shifting present, and his own identity.
Two Scottish immigrants, bound by duty and drawn to the wild beauty of Montana's Two Medicine country, find their hearts entangled in a fateful contest as they strive to tame both the land and their own complicated lives.
After the Nagasaki bombing, a woman's life unfolds through love, betrayal, and the lasting marks of history, linking families across continents and generations through 20th-century upheavals.
An American millionaire, new to European society, falls for an aristocratic French widow, uncovering her family's dark past and facing a choice between revenge and personal honor.
Seventy years after Camus's murder on an Algerian beach, a brother's monologue reclaims the erased identity of 'the Arab,' giving him a name, a story, and a voice to confront colonialism, faith, and the shadow of a literary classic.
Naive Irish solider Willie Dunne confronts the horrors of World War I, only to return home and find his Ireland fractured by a different, equally devastating war.
