Literary Fiction

Good Night, Irene Luis Alberto Urrea

GOOD NIGHT, IRENE is a beautiful, heartfelt novel of women's courage and friendship in extreme adversity. Inspired by his mother's history in World War Two, Luis Alberto Urrea has created a powerful story.

 

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The Covenant of Water Abraham Verghese

THE COVENANT OF WATER is the long awaited and most anticipated literary epic by Abraham Verghese, author of the phenomenon Cutting for Stone that spent more than two years on the New York Times best seller list. This dramatic look at three generations suffering a peculiar...

Hang the Moon Jeannette Walls

HANG THE MOON uses elegant prose to create a new favorite literary hero. She is feisty, fearless, terrified and damaged. While atop the world of letters for her past blockbusters The Glass Castle, Half Broke Horses, and The Silver Star, critics are calling this latest her masterpiece.

 

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My Sunshine Away M. O. Walsh

MY SUNSHINE AWAY is a powerful debut novel set in a small Southern town after a young girl is attacked and many residents of the close-knit neighborhood are suspects.

 

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Let Us Descend Jesmyn Ward

LET US DESCEND is Jesmyn Ward's most magnificnet novel - and that's high praise. The prose is both beautiful and heart-wrenching as the spirit of an African warrior leads her grandaughter through an unimaginable journey.

 

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Secessia Kent Wascom

SECESSIA is a tale of greed, slavery and intrigue set in 1862 New Orleans, when the largest city in the confederacy is governed the Union's notorious General Benjamin "The Beast" Butler.

 

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The New Inheritors Kent Wascom

THE NEW INHERITORS is the story of a young artist and a well-heeled heiress during World War I in New Orleans, whose family strife and the tumult in the world around them threaten to tear them apart.  This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless Classic, meaning it is among the best of the best for the...

As Good As Gone Larry Watson

AS GOOD AS GONE gives readers a wide angled look at an absent father and grandfather who is asked to babysit in an emergency by his estranged son. He reluctantly accepts, and although he is loaded with pride and decency, he lives by a firm code that sometimes harms those he loves. The book is both tough and tender, and...

The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead

THE NICKEL BOYS revolves around two young men sentenced to a juvenile reformatory in 1960s Jim Crow Florida where they and the other residents are subject to the cruel abuse of the staff, both physically and sexually. One, Elwood Curtis, keeps the words of Martin Luther King Jr. in his mind and heart, trying to live Dr...

Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead

CROOK MANIFESTO looks at 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. It is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege.

 

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