Julia Alvarez is a treasure! I loved, in this book, the way she dealt with characters that were long dead--many of them real people. I also loved her viewpoint as the author.
Literary icon Julia Alvarez, the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies , returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling that will be an instant classic.Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories , doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold…
E. Jean Carroll, in telling her story of the lawsuit she brought against a well-known politician, is extremely funny. I laughed out loud continuously as I read. And I loved that, although it was clear whom she was writing about, it would have been just as entertaining had she been writing about any other politician.
AN INSTANT INDIE, USA TODAY, AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
"Delightful . . . We already know that E. Jean Carroll looked smashing when she went to court versus Donald J. Trump. But her irrepressible voice was, necessarily, repressed...Now she is saying pretty much everything." ―The New York Times Book Review
"Buoyant." ―The New York Times
A hilarious, hopeful, revelatory behind the scenes account of the trials that riveted the nation
You've heard about the tantrums, the seething, the storming out of court, yes. But what about E. Jean's side of the story? What about the flight suits, the bottle…
The Shah of Texas brings the absurdity of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove and Joseph Heller's Catch-22 to early-2000s revelations of torture at Abu Ghraib. In the novel, Texas has declared itself anindependent nation from the United States and installed a Shah as its head of state. After years of war between Texas and America, journalist Adiel S.Thomas has uncovered torture by Texan soldiers. The Shah's government, led by the demi-Shah Dick Dick Dick Dick Dick and his silent assistant Scheissetete, scrambles to bury the news-and Adiel herself. Her investigations take her into the underbelly of the venal, violent Texan government…
A serial killer is stalking young gay men in a mid-western college town. The killer is fueled by the ravings of a hateful evangelist. When the killings become personal, two students try to unmask the murderer. One of the sleuths is the partner of one of the slain, while the other is navigating a new relationship with an unstable, very rich young man.
