In a small Colombian town, the collective memory of an honor killing unravels, revealing not who committed the murder, but why an entire community allowed it to happen despite knowing the victim's fate.
To escape the awkward wedding of an ex-lover, a perpetually failing novelist embarks on a chaotic, globe-trotting literary tour, accidentally finding himself and love along the way.
Three women across different eras and continents find their lives linked by Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway' as they face their own desires, societal expectations, and the passage of time.
In multicultural London, the intertwined lives of the English Iqbal and Jewish-Jamaican Jones families unravel across three generations, showing how friendship, love, war, and the inescapable past comically and poignantly affect them.
In Jim Crow-era Florida, two black boys forge a desperate friendship within a brutal reform school, their clashing ideals and cynicism leading to a decision that will ripple through their lives for decades.
Fifteen realistic tales by James Joyce examine the stagnant lives of early 20th-century Dubliners, showing their spiritual and emotional traps through moments of sudden, often unsettling, insight.
In a spectral Georgetown cemetery, a grief-stricken Abraham Lincoln visits the bardo where his deceased son, Willie, is caught in a hilarious and terrifying purgatory with a chorus of chattering ghosts, all grappling with the messy, unfinished business of life and death.
A forgotten Yiddish novel intertwines the lives of a lonely Polish émigré still yearning for his lost love and a tenacious teenage girl determined to cure her mother's solitude by finding its elusive author.
In 1920s Alaska, a childless homesteader couple's despair changes with the sudden arrival of a wild, mysterious girl, born from snow and myth, who redefines their ideas of family, nature, and the line between reality and fairy tale.
Two NYPD families in the suburbs find their lives shattered by a single act of violence, forcing their children to navigate a lifetime of love, trauma, and the difficult path to forgiveness.
A dazzling portrait of a marriage, "Fates and Furies" dissects the two radically different sides of a seemingly perfect union, revealing the volatile truths and carefully guarded secrets that bind a couple over two decades.
On the 1920s French Riviera, psychiatrist Dick Diver's magnetic but fragile marriage to his wealthy wife Nicole collapses under the weight of mental illness, infidelity, and the allure of young starlet Rosemary Hoyt.
In an abandoned Italian villa at the close of WWII, four damaged people gather around a burned English patient, whose fragmented memories of love, betrayal, and desert exploration reveal their own scarred pasts.
Confined to a hospital bed, Lucy Barton’s unexpected reunion with her estranged mother reveals a lifetime of buried longings, echoes of an impoverished past, and the complex love and hurt that defines their unbreakable bond.
In the vibrant, post-Depression tide pools of Monterey, a motley crew of outcasts and philosophers navigates life's hilarious and heartbreaking currents, finding solace and survival in their shared humanity amidst the clatter of cannery machinery.
In the early 80s, an English major steeped in 19th-century romance finds her own "marriage plot" unfolding amidst Derrida, Talking Heads, and two intensely different suitors grappling with mental illness and spiritual quests after college.
In a story where many lives meet at the Big Oakland Powwow, "There There" shows the struggles, strength, and beauty of urban Native American identity, ending with an unforgettable climax.
A family's journey to embrace their youngest son's desire to be a girl forces them to confront societal expectations, the power of secrets, and the ever-evolving definition of unconditional love.
This novel follows an ordinary day in Dublin, 1904, where everyday events become myth through new prose, stream-of-consciousness, and language that changes what a novel can be.
In 19th-century Canada, a domestic servant convicted of a double murder claims amnesia, so a doctor must unravel her memory to learn if she is a killer, a victim, or mentally ill.
In the fading factory town of Empire Falls, a resigned burger-flipper navigates the comedic and heartbreaking wreckage of his past, present, and the overbearing matriarch who owns everything, including his destiny.
Six artistic teenagers become close friends at summer camp. Over decades, their talents, fortunes, and envies diverge as shared dreams become different realities.
Lila faces the constraints of a new marriage, while Elena enters the intellectual world beyond their Neapolitan neighborhood. Their evolving friendship is a constant amid love, jealousy, and ambition.
