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3) Snow Island
George Tibbits steps from the ferry on a spring day in 1941, and Alice Daggett is there to watch his silent arrival with the other islanders. He is a recluse in his forties and the owner of the island’s twin houses. She is a sixteen year old who spends her days attending the one-room schoolhouse, running the island’s only store, and waiting for her real life to begin. As the isolated island community is drawn into war, Snow Island tells the
...It is 1934, and New York City is in the icy grip of the Great Depression. With enormous compassion, Dr. James Delaney tends to his hurt, sick, and poor neighbors, who include gangsters, day laborers, prostitutes, and housewives. If they can't...
6) Veronica
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: One is a young model stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged office temp. Over the...
After a college student speeding in a blue Honda Civic kills her husband of less than a year, Olivia is completely lost. One hot summer day, she walks into the beachfront Rhode Island cottage she and David bought the previous August—the place where they had planned to someday start a family—and finds a stranger...
9) I was here
11) The touch
14) Crooked River
Full of emotion and suspense, Crooked River is an inventive and atmospheric story about family and friendship, good and evil, secrets and lies, grief and forgiveness
Where should I start? With Mom's funeral? Or a week earlier on the Fourth of July, the day she died? Or should I skip all that stuff and get straight to the part where Ollie and I just wanted to go swimming and pretend our lives were ordinary again, but when we got
...15) Afterlife
17) Ordinary ghosts
19) Closing time
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