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"A city is always a cemetery. When a professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a man in a dark alley, she finds a stark warning scrawled on the brick wall beside the body, written in coral nail polish: "Beware of me, my...

"Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, 'The World of Yesterday' recalls the golden age of literary Vienna -- its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastating fall. Surrounded by the leading...

What can we learn from an ordinary life observed with extraordinary skill? In The Irish Goodbye, Beth Ann Fennelly writes of the small moments that shape a life, whether moving or perplexing or troubling or gladdening, in the process dignifying...

A woman returns to the small English town she grew up in to live in a sublet flat that overlooks her mother's house. Much as she'd like to take charge, be a good daughter, and build a meaningful existence, she is consistently haunted by her...

"A bold, inventive, and fiercely original debut novel that begins with an uncle dead and his tween niece's private confession to the reader-she and her sister killed him, and they blame the British"--Provided by publisher.