Crippled by illness yet fiercely bound to her ancestral Maine farm, Christina Olson becomes the unlikely muse for Andrew Wyeth, immortalizing her struggle and spirit in one of America's most iconic paintings.
After surviving a plane explosion, an Indian movie star and a voice actor are caught in a surreal battle of identity, good, and evil, forcing them to question faith and reality.
In the hot American South, a pregnant woman looks for her lover, while a mysterious drifter's past reveals the deep prejudices and violence of a small Mississippi town.
In a celebrated Manhattan restaurant, a young woman's new appetites for pleasure, knowledge, and belonging pull her into a glittering, gritty coming-of-age story of champagne, cocaine, and a dark love triangle.
During the Civil War, abolitionist chaplain March faces the realities of battle and human nature, which break his faith and force him to remake himself before returning to his family, who know nothing of his ordeal.
A man's drunken choice to auction his wife and child at a country fair echoes for two decades, forcing him to face a past he tried to bury as the Mayor of Casterbridge.
In a future where economic collapse forces couples into a social experiment, a wife's affair with the man inhabiting their home during alternating prison terms uncovers a twisted scheme that threatens her husband's life.
A wheelchair-bound historian unearths the rugged, pioneering spirit and complex marital secrets of his grandparents' Western frontier life, inadvertently revealing the unvarnished truths of his own.
Four orphans flee a brutal Indian training school in 1932, canoeing down the Mississippi and finding an unexpected family among strangers during the Great Depression.
After a plague, a pilot and his dog live on a desolate airfield until a faint radio signal leads them on a dangerous journey, chasing a glimmer of hope.
Every nine years, a hidden manor lures lonely souls into its reality-warping embrace, trapping them in a cycle of spiritual consumption by its immortal, parasitic residents.
In 1940s Louisiana, a black teacher, jaded by racial injustice, must help a young man wrongly sentenced to death find his dignity before his execution, ultimately finding his own purpose.
Alice Blackwell goes from a quiet librarian in Wisconsin to First Lady to a charismatic, conservative president, navigating the contradictions of love and complicity as she faces the gap between her private conscience and public role.
In the final days of French rule in Vietnam, a British journalist, an American aid worker, and a Vietnamese woman find themselves in a dangerous love triangle that reflects the political and moral problems of 1950s Saigon.
In the late 19th-century Appalachian mountains, a young bride fights natural disasters, treachery, and a new marriage, hoping love can keep her from falling into madness.
Crippled by a club foot and a yearning for belonging, Philip Carey embarks on a soul-crushing odyssey through art, intellect, and a destructive obsession with a vulgar waitress, only to discover redemption in the bitter crucible of self-knowledge.
Sissy Hankshaw, with thumbs as unusual as her desire to travel, hitchhikes across America, a free spirit looking for identity, love, and the real story behind the 'cowgirl' image.
In a New England town grappling with changing social mores, an artist's decision to marry her female lover after decades of marriage unleashes a torrent of long-buried family secrets and forces her children and ex-husband to confront their own fractured lives.
As Britain struggles with its identity, an unlikely bond between a centenarian and a young art lecturer grows, connecting memory, history, and human connection through the changing seasons.
In a sweltering Mississippi town, a determined girl, haunted by her brother's unsolved murder years earlier, investigates her community and family history, using her intelligence and desire for revenge.