FICTION
Released: Sept. 16, 2003
"A disappointingly bland follow-up to a stellar story collection."
A first novel from Pulitzer-winner Lahiri (stories:
Interpreter of Maladies, 1999) focuses on the divide between Indian immigrants and their Americanized children.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2004
"Despite overplotting, then, a telling portrait of a profoundly stressed family."
Picoult's latest chronicle of family travail (
Second Glance, 2003, etc.) highlights the consequences of deliberately conceiving a child genetically compatible with a mortally ill sibling.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2005
"A pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps, thoroughly American story."
An account of growing up nomadic, starry-eyed, and dirt poor in the '60s and '70s, by gossip journalist Walls (
Dish, 2000).
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FICTION
Released: May 2, 2005
"A most unusual and original piece of fiction--and not to be missed. "
CHILDREN'S
Released: March 14, 2006
"Beautiful and important. (Fiction. 12+)"
FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2007
"Despite a less sure-footed conclusion, Díaz's reverse family saga, crossed with withering political satire, makes for a compelling, sex-fueled, 21st-century tragi-comedy with a magical twist."
A rich, impassioned vision of the Dominican Republic and its diaspora, filtered through the destiny of a single family.
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