"[An] uproarious saga . . . drawing on contemporary accounts, fantastical folk tales, and [Anderson's] own knack for high jinks."—New York Times Book Review
"[A] rollicking comic novel."—NPR
"M. T. Anderson is one of our greatest and most precious voices."—Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians Trilogy
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous, slyly funny, and delightfully queer work of historical fantasy, based on a bizarre but true quest to steal the mystical corpse of a long-dead saint
The year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian city of Bari. When a lowly…
While everyone is housebound by Covid, Lara explains (with redactions) to her three daughters the summer she spent as an aspiring actress in summer stock at Tom lake, and the mad actor and future movie star who was her boyfriend. A wonderful exploration of what makes love, and what doesn't, as lara's daughters piece together the people their parents were before their birth. It will compel any reader to wonder what their own children think of their lives before those children's existence, and how wrong they may be about it all.
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'A new Ann Patchett novel is always cause for celebration ... and Tom Lake is one of her best' i
'This comforting summer read has it all ... Young love, sibling rivalry and deep mother-daughter relationships' REESE WITHERSPOON
'Filled with the moments I live for in a story' BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry
'One of the most beloved authors of her generation' SUNDAY TIMES
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This is a story about Peter Duke who went on…
It’s 1919, the Great War is over, and everyone is expected to get back to their pre-war lives. No one wants to see the maimed and the scarred, and women who went to work during the war are being pushed out of jobs that are to be given to the returning men. This is a beautifully crafted examination of post-war cultural upheaval, and Helen Simonson gives us everything we could look for in a novel of the human heart. Simonson’s gift of characterization lies in her ability to show us the story behind the story in just a few deft strokes: even the unpleasant and vindictive have their reasons and we know what they are and understand, even as we root for those with more heart. The setting and time are impeccably researched, from wartime rationing to rising hemlines to flying a Sopwith Camel.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Historical fiction of the highest order . . . an absolute joy of a book, warm and romantic, and with so much to say about the lives of women in the years following World War I.”—Ann Napolitano, bestselling author of Hello Beautiful
A timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about a generation of young women facing the seismic changes brought on by war and dreaming of the boundless possibilities of their future, from the bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Coyote weather is the feral, hungry season, drought-stricken and ready to catch fire. It’s 1967 and the American culture is violently remaking itself while the country is forcibly sending its young men to fight in a deeply unpopular war. Jerry has stubbornly made no plans for the future because he doesn’t think that, in the shadow of Vietnam, the Cold War and atomic bomb drills, there is going to be one. Ellen is determined to have a plan, because nothing else seems capable of keeping the world from tilting. And the Ghost, who isn’t exactly dead, just wants to go home to a place that won’t let him in, the small California town where they all grew up.
