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The Age of Miracles, by Karen Thompson Walker
“…I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different — unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.” Growing up is hard to do — never mind when...
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Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
In a small, unnamed country somewhere in South America, an extravagant party is being thrown for a wealthy Japanese businessman. The guests are Dutch, Russian, French, Spanish and German;...
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The Round House, by Louise Erdrich
“…I didn’t know what to say. We were in a grown-up conversation and I could only go so far.” Joe Coutts is only thirteen-years-old when his mother is brutally attacked and raped. This traumatic event...
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Jacob’s Folly, by Rebecca Miller
The story begins with Jacob Cerf’s death. A Jewish street peddler from Paris, his end in 1773 marks a new beginning. Awakening as — he thinks — an angel, he looks down on contemporary Patchogue, Long...
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Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver
Dellarobia Turnbow, a young, married mother of two, marches up a mountainside near her Appalachian home to meet her lover. Before she can reach the trysting place, however, a miracle stops her: a lake...
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The Interestings, by Meg Wolitzer
“That night, though, long before the shock and the sadness and the permanence, as they sat in Boys’ Teepee 3, their clothes bakery sweet from the very last washer-dryer load at home, Ash Wolf said,...
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A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki
“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument, which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what,...
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Burial Rites, by Hannah Kent
“Sometimes, after talking to the Reverend, my mouth aches. My tongue feels so tired; it slumps in my mouth like a dead bird, all damp feathers, in between the stones of my teeth.” The debut novel,...
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Our Souls at Night, by Kent Haruf
“Who would have thought at this time in our lives that we’d still have something like this. That it turns out we’re not finished with changes and excitements. And not all dried up in body and...
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The Gap of Time, by Jeanette Winterson
And the story fell out, stone by stone, shining and held, the way time is held in a diamond. In The Gap of Time, a rich and jealous husband suspects his pregnant wife has been cheating on him with his...
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