American Pastoral won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1998.
Join fellow members in a discussion of Morrison's 2012 novel, Home.
Unhappy with Denver, Buddy Millar moves back to his parents' house only to have the place burglarized under his watch. Buddy decides to move to Wamsutter, a depressed red-dirt trailer park town in Wyoming. Unruly dogs introduce his new neighbors Cheri and her husband, Raze Wham, who turns out to be Buddy's sociopathic bully from high school. When Buddy intervenes in a domestic incident involving the couple's children, Cheri and Buddy grow entangled in a complicated relationship.
American Pastoral won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1998.
Inspector Morse is on the case at Oxford's luxurious Randolph Hotel. An American tourist dies and a priceless jewel bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum by her late husband is missing from her hotel room. Quirky and sophisticated, the Jewel That Was Ours is a mystery for readers who love to solve puzzles.
Crossing to Safety was a National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction in 1987.
Crossing to Safety was a National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction in 1987.
Gaitskill's short story "Acceptance Journey" focuses on what the author calls "liminal states," where you "never know what will happen."
Selected stories from Lucia Berlin, a writer overlooked in her lifetime, but now celebrated by contemporary critics, writers, and readers as a legend of the short-story format.
