She decides to marry him. Over the span of decades, his younger siblings -- the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec -- struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious existence. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody.

. Finalist for the pulitzer prizelong-listed for the national book awardwinner of the los angeles times book prize finalist for the national book critics circle awardfinalist for the kirkus prizelong-listed for the andrew carnegie medaltop 10 novels of the year -- time, newsdayone of the best books of the year: barnes & noble, bookpage, seattle times, shelf awareness, bbc, financial Times, Refinery29, Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, WBUR's On Point"Haslett is one of the country's most talented writers, Elle, Kirkus, equipped with a sixth sense for characterization" --Wall Street Journal"Ambitious and stirring .

Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing, gut-wrenching, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children, and the legacy of a father's pain in the life of a family.

With imagine me Gone, Haslett has reached another level. New york times book reviewfrom a pulitzer prize and national book award finalist, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most?When Margaret's fiancé, John, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her.

With his striking emotional precision and lively, inventive language, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives. Imagine me gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith.

You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories

A genteel middle-aged woman, a long-time resident of a psychiatric hospital, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn teenaged volunteer. Told with chekhovian restraint and compassion, and conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, You Are Not a Stranger Here is a triumph of storytelling.

An elderly inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. A bereaved boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. The impact is at once harrowing and thrilling. In these unforgettable stories, the acclaimed author of Imagine Me Gone explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them.

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The Return Pulitzer Prize Winner: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

The return, for all the questions it cannot answer, leaves a deep emotional imprint. Newsday “a masterful memoir, grief, and above all, guilt, exile, belonging, a searing meditation on loss, family. Likely to become a classic. Colm tóibín “matar’s evocative writing and his early traumas call to mind Vladimir Nabokov.

The washington Post “Utterly riveting. The boston globe “A moving, unflinching memoir of a family torn apart. Kazuo ishiguro, The Guardian “Beautiful. Winner of the pulitzer prize • the acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, ultimately, and a finalist for the national book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, healing—one of The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of the year, and, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, his father went missing under mysterious circumstances.

Hisham would never see him again, but he never gave up hope that his father might still be alive. Twenty-two years later, he returned to his native Libya in search of the truth behind his father’s disappearance. Roves back and forth in time with a freedom that conceals the intricate precision of its art.

The wall street Journal “Truly remarkable.

Less Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: A Novel

It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful. Christopher buckley, The New York Times Book Review. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all, there is his first love. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat.

On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. Question: how do you arrange to skip town?ANSWER: You accept them all. What would possibly go wrong? arthur less will almost fall in love in paris, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the only writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, the last person on Earth he wants to face.

And there is his last. Because, missteps, above all, despite all these mishaps, Less is, misunderstandings and mistakes, a love story. A scintillating satire of the american abroad, " as well as "too sappy by half, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, lyrical, by an author The New York Times has hailed as "inspired, " "elegiac, " "ingenious, a rumination on time and the human heart, " Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.

I could not love LESS more. Ron charles, the washington Post"Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel Vintage International

Until he receives a letter that will change him forever. A savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of good and evil, as one man comes of age, of truth and transcendence, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost. Winner of the man booker prize“Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has shaken me like this.

The washington postfrom the author of the acclaimed Gould’s Book of Fish, a magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present. August, 1943: australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. His life, in a brutal japanese pow camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, is a daily struggle to save the men under his command.

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Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather

A game that will lead to betrayal, ultimately, shame and, murder. In her darkly comic and unsettling first novel, Jincy Willett proves that she is a true find: that rare writer who can explore the shadowy side of human nature with the lightest of touches. Though abigail exasperates Dorcas, the two love each other; in fact, they complete each other.

Abigail mather is a woman of enormous appetites, sexual and otherwise. Not the mere conquest of Abigail, with her easy reputation, but a longer and more sinister game. Her fraternal twin dorcas couldn't be more different: she gave up on sex without once trying it, and she lives a controlled, dignified life of the mind.

What is it that makes the two women targets for the new man in town, tall, the charming schlockmeister Conrad Lowe, whippet-thin and predatory? In Abigail and Dorcas he sees a new and tantalizing challenge. Winner of the national book award, the long-awaited novel from the author of the acclaimed collection, Jenny and the Jaws of Life, is an unusual and wonderful novel that is somehow able to be at once bleak and hilarious, light-hearted and profound.

It's the story of two sisters. They are an odd pair, and writers, set down in an odd Rhode Island town, both published and unpublished, where everyone has a story to tell, carom off each other like billiard balls.

The Story of a Marriage: A Novel

Lyrical, the story of a marriage is, and surprising, in the words of Khaled Housseini, "a book about love, and it is a marvel to watch Greer probe the mysteries of love to such devastating effect. ". Then, a stranger appears on her doorstep, one Saturday morning, and everything changes. It is 1953 and pearlie, but also for her son, caring not only for her husband's fragile health, a dutiful young housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District in San Francisco, who is afflicted with polio.

A today show summer reads picka Washington Post Book of the Year"We think we know the ones we love. So pearlie cook begins her indirect, and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship--how we can ever truly know another person.

The Overstory: A Novel

This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. Winner of the pulitzer prize in fictionshortlisted for the man booker prizenew york times bestsellerA New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Oprah Magazine, and really just one of the best novels, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018"The best novel ever written about trees, Time, Newsweek, period.

Ann patchettthe overstory, winner of the 2019 pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, magnificently inventive, resourceful, and almost invisible to us.

From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

In the Distance

Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre, offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness. Hernan diaz is the author of borges, between history and Eternity Bloomsbury 2012, managing editor of RHM, and associate director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University.

Finalist for the 2018 pulitzer Prize for FictionA young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. Driven back again and again, swindlers, Indians, religious fanatics, criminals, he meets naturalists, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. He lives in New York. The boy travels east in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West.

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The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Considering himself “a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world, ” Jun Do rises in the ranks. The orphan master’s Son has an early lead on novel of the year. The daily beast “This is a novel worth getting excited about. The washington post “a ripping piece of fiction that is also an astute commentary on the nature of freedom, sacrifice, and glory.

Elle. Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure, a legendary actress “so pure, Sun Moon, he boldly takes on the treacherous role of rival to Kim Jong Il in an attempt to save the woman he loves, she didn’t know what starving people looked like. Part breathless thriller, the orphan master’s son is also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, part story of innocence lost, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, part story of romantic love, and love.

The pulitzer prize–winning, new york Times betselling novel of North Korea: an epic journey into the heart of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship. Imagine charles dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which Adam Johnson is painting here. The washington post pak jun do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs a work camp for orphans.

. Superiors in the north Korean state soon recognize the boy’s loyalty and keen instincts. Johnson has written a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice.

The Sport of Kings: A Novel

It is a contemporary masterpiece. San francisco chronicle hailed by the new yorker for its “remarkable achievements, ” The Sport of Kings is an American tale centered on a horse and two families: one white, a Southern dynasty whose forefathers were among the founders of Kentucky; the other African-American, the descendants of their slaves.

It is a dauntless narrative that stretches from the fields of the Virginia piedmont to the abundant pastures of the Bluegrass, and across the dark waters of the Ohio River; from the final shots of the Revolutionary War to the resounding clang of the starting bell at Churchill Downs. Morgan unspools a fabric of shared histories, past and present converge in a Thoroughbred named Hellsmouth, heir to Secretariat and a contender for the Triple Crown.

Newly confronted with one another in the quest for victory, enduring question: how far away from your father can you run?A sweeping narrative of wealth and poverty, the two families must face the consequences of their ambitions, racism and rage, as each is driven-and haunted-by the same, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in the shadow of slavery and a moral epic for our time.

. E. As C. A finalist for the pulitzer prize winner of the kirkus prize for fiction • a recipient of the windham-campbell prize for fiction • a finalist for the james tait black prize for fiction • a finalist for the baileys women's prize for fiction • a finalist for the rathbones Folio Prize • Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence • One of New York Times Book Review 100 Notable BookNamed a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly • GQ • The New York Times Selected by Dwight Garner • NPR • The Wall Street Journal • San Francisco Chronicle • Refinery29 • Booklist • Kirkus Reviews • Commonweal Magazine"In its poetic splendor and moral seriousness, Morrison, The Sport of Kings bears the traces of Faulkner, and McCarthy.