FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2009
"A breezy, thoughtful and witty novel about the immigrant experience."
In this case the homies are Pakastani-Americans and Pakistanis who want to be American--at least until 9/11 upsets the cultural balance.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2009
"Though occasionally preachy, the novel is both heartfelt and moving."
A post-9/11 novel examining how that traumatic event shapes the lives of the narrator and a college professor, as well as the lives of those she teaches.
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2009
"A novel with barely a wasted word or an emotion that doesn't ring true."
A taut, masterfully controlled and profoundly moving novel about family ties--blood or otherwise.
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FICTION
Released: May 13, 2008
"This love story about a friendship, a place and a marriage is not easy to read, but it's even harder to stop thinking about."
Novelist and memoirist O'Neill (
Blood-Dark Track: A Family History, 2001, etc.), born in Ireland and raised in Holland, goes for broke in this challenging novel set largely in post-9/11 New York City.
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FICTION
Released: July 1, 2006
"An interesting departure from Kalfus's Slavic-inflected earlier fiction (including PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, 1999). Astringent, accomplished black comedy."
The fallout from 9/11 casts a pall over an already moribund marriage in Kalfus's second novel (following his terrific
The Commissariat of Enlightenment, 2003).
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FICTION
Released: June 6, 2006
"However it's read, Updike, approaching his mid-70s, continues to entice, provoke and astonish. Who knows where he'll take us next? "
Discursiveness, coincidence and a barely credible surprise ending compromise, but do not critically impair, Updike's intriguing 22nd novel: a scary portrayal of uptight, perpetually imperilled post-9/11 America.
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