A large anthology that traces the history and culture of Afro-Latin people in the United States through essays, memoir, journalism, poetry, and interviews.
Through the life of Selina Peake DeJong, who works the land and supports her family, the novel explores labor, poverty, ambition, and motherhood. At its center are a woman's hard-won independence and the practical weight of the American dream.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” ( The Chicago Tribune ) . One of the New York Times ’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. “Pitch perfect . . . Darkly, rippingly funny . . . Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.”— The New York Times Book Review
Presents a collection of recipes designed to lift one's mood, provide cleansing, and heal common ailments with dishes for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, snacks, and desserts.
The final volume of the Chaos Walking trilogy, in which war, choice, freedom, and responsibility force the young protagonists toward impossible decisions.
On a coast devastated by rising seas, Nailer works ship-breaker crews and is forced into flight and hard choices after meeting the wealthy Nita. In a world of resource scarcity, the novel asks what courage looks like when survival is all that remains.
Edoardo Nesi writes about the decline of Prato's textile world and the fading of a prosperity that once seemed ordinary, in a memoir-like personal essay.