Short stories of upper-class domestic life by an award-winning literary talent: " Asking for Love delighted me no end" (Alice Munro).Whether it's a woman who must accept the reality of her son growing up, or a daughter becoming disillusioned with her father, this moving collection expertly conveys the joys, doubts, fears, and endless contradictions that are inescapable parts of domestic life. In "Mr. Sumarsono," included in The Best American S...

A New York Times Notable Book: Fourteen exquisitely crafted tales of love, betrayal, loss, and renewal among the upper class.Acclaimed author Roxana Robinson's collection runs the gamut of emotion, with characters facing shifting family dynamics and moments of personal crisis: marriage and remarriage, the delights and struggles of raising children, the lure of illicit romance, and the bitter acrimony of divorce. Robinson draws her characters—inclu...

“America’s reigning queen of decorating.” —Southern Living“One of America’s premier interior designers.” —Garden DesignAuthor and renowned designer Bunny Williams has been at the top of the interior design world for more than 40 years. Here she invites readers to explore La Colina, her lovely Caribbean retreat tucked into lush, tropical gardens by the sea.Williams writes “We knew we wanted a house where we would rea...

A New York Times Notable Book: A luminous, deeply affecting story of divorce, remarriage, and parenthood.Peter and Emma, two single parents who have found love again after failed first marriages, dream of a peaceful and happy blended family with each of their daughters under one roof. They navigate this treacherous territory with the best of intentions, but face resistance from the girls, who, like many children of divorce, find their relationships tinged by grief,...

**"Wondrous.…This insightful, complex story about a late-in-life romance is unforgettable." —Joan Frank, The Washington PostWhat risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again?Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Kirkus Reviews • One of the Los Angeles Times's '15 Best Books of the Year' • A Chicago Public Library Must-Read of 2024**“I never thought I’d see you here,” Sarah says. Then she adds, “But I ...

What does love demand of us, and who must pay the price?'Absorbing...haunting.' Meg Woltizer, author of The WifeHigh school sweethearts, Sarah and Warren, have grand plans for an adventurous future together, but when a misunderstanding causes them to part ways, they end up marrying other people.When they meet again at sixty, their lives have been carved into very different shapes. Sarah lives outside New York; Warren lives ...

THE LUMINOUS AND GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM "ONE OF OUR BEST WRITERS" (JONATHAN YARDLEY, THE WASHINGTON POST)When Julia Lambert, an art professor, settles into her idyllic Maine house for the summer, she plans to spend the time tending her fragile relationships with her father, a repressive neurosurgeon, and her gentle mother, who is descending into Alzheimer's. But a shattering revelation intrudes: Julia's son Jack has spiraled into heroin addiction.In...

A cinematic Reconstruction-era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoningIn Dawson's Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson's great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson's tale weaves her family's journal entries and letters with a novelist's narrative grace, and spans the life of her tragic hero, Frank Dawson, as he attempts to navigate the country's ne...

Lisa D. Gray's story "The Queen of Secrets" won the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award!John Crowley's story "Spring Break" won the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Short Story!"In an Ivy League town, Bloom turns Yale's motto--Lux et Veritas--on its head, finding darkness and deceit in every corner of New Haven...The stories Bloom chooses share a strong sense of place, detailing the quirks that make every corne...

"Robinson brings the tolls of war up close . . . Her powerful novel demonstrates that fiction actually can function as a sort of explosive device." — The Washington PostA Washington Post Notable Fiction BookGoing from peace to war can make a young man into a warrior. Going from war to peace can destroy him.Conrad Farrell has no family military heritage, but as a classics major at Williams College, he has enco...

Roxana Robinson's great gift for the telling detail and strong sense of the emotional shoals lurking just beneath even the calmest surface have inspired comparisons to literary greats like John Cheever, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. In her first novel, we meet Laura, a 29-year-old wife, mother, sister, friend, lover, and erstwhile photographer whose life is painfully out of focus. A month's vacation on the Maine coast with her son, her lover, Ward, and her sister's family is supposed to ...

This is without question the best book ever written on O'Keeffe' New YorkerBorn on a wheat farm in Wisconsin in 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia O'Keeffe had her eyes wide open to the beauty of nature from the very beginning, and by her twenties had become a formidable artist, and a strikingly original and spirited young woman. Moving first to Chicago and then to New York to pursue her studies, her consciousness was enlarged by her discovery of ...