Category: Fiction

Georgia Cotrell | Shoulders | Shoulders is about coming of age in Texas in the 1970s when you’re dewy-eyed and brash and a lesbian. Shoulders is about making it through to the ’80s

Honore de Balzac | Seraphita | Balzac begins with a travelogue of the fiords of Norway, concentrating ultimately on one valley that is isolated by the roaring waters of the Sieg Riv

Rose Franken | Intimate Story | The petticoated pitfalls of the woman alone, afraid to trespass on her children’s lives, unsure of her own, this has of course the expected womanly wa

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney | A Love Affair | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was not only a sculptor; she was a patron of the arts who founded the Whitney Museum in New York. She is also remembered f

Chinelo Okparanta | Happiness, Like Water | It is the opposition of expectations, more than opposition of cultures, which affects the characters in Happiness, Like Water, a debut collection of

Emma Perez | Gulf Dreams | Gulf Dreams is the story of a Chicana who comes of age in a racist, rural Texas town. Through memory, the protagonist reexamines her unresolved obsess

Hermann Hesse | Steppenwolf | Contains highly sympathetic homosexual characters (male and female)

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With its generous helpings of sex and drugs, its darkly romantic urban

Ann-Marie Macdonald | Fall on Your Knees | Fall on Your Knees, award-winning actor and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald’s sprawling and powerful first novel, reads like a literary soap ope

Honore de Balzac | Cousin Bette | Cousin Bette (1847) vividly brings to life the rift between the old world and the new and is, among other things, a serious study of the Paris demimon

Louis Bromfield | The Rains Came | In a long novel of India there is a brief but important episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an engaging old battleax, muses as she