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A clear-eyed coming-of-age novel about how families use stories to disperse blame, hide harm, and keep one another alive “The day you were born was the worst day of my life,” JP’s older sister, Anna, tells him. A heavy legacy to hand to a thirteen-year-old. According to Griffin family mythology, JP’s birth set off a […]

Hitty Atkins sells herbs at the Woodhaven market, rain or shine, from one of the emptier tables. She is old, nearly toothless, a widow whose only child drowned after other boys pushed him in. She grows the best produce in the settlement and gets the least custom for it, because the town has decided she […]

There is a small dark room inside the Art Institute of Chicago: sixteen wooden columns, four illuminated Japanese screens, one bench. Clare DeTamble has been going there almost daily for three years because it is the only place in the city where she can weep without being observed. She is not waiting for anything. Her […]

Before a word of the story, there is a dedication naming seven men: Michael Collins, Dick Gordon, Jack Swigert, Stu Roosa, Al Worden, Ken Mattingly, Ron Evans. Apollo command module pilots. They flew a quarter of a million miles, parked in lunar orbit, and waited alone while two colleagues climbed down a ladder into history. […]

The past may haunt, but it doesn’t define in this nostalgic, found-family noir. The sequel to Antonini’s Bullets for Silverware, CANDYLAND maintains that same gritty atmosphere and suspense you seek from classic noir fiction. Michael, a newly appointed Harvard Scholar, is still recovering from the traumas of his past life. As a pharmacist in West […]