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Staying On: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction)
University of Chicago Press

Staying On: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction)

Paul Scott

Set in the hill town of Pankot after Indian independence, the novel follows a retired British army couple as aging, dependence, class assumptions, and the fading echo of empire reshape their lives. As a sequel to The Raj Quartet, it captures a marriage in friction and a changing India with quiet humour and sadness.

A Flag for Sunrise
Picador

A Flag for Sunrise

Robert Stone

A priest, a nun, an anthropologist with CIA connections, a soldier of fortune and the contraband runners he joins are all drawn into events in a Central American country on the brink of revolution.

In This Our Life
Buccaneer Books

In This Our Life

Ellen Glasgow

A novel about an influential Southern family in which ethics, prejudice, revenge, and responsibility become entangled. As private feeling collides with community norms, the tensions inside the family are brought to the surface.

The Magnificent Ambersons (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Random House Publishing Group

The Magnificent Ambersons (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

Booth Tarkington

A novel about the quiet decline of the Ambersons, a prominent Indiana family, as urban growth and the automobile age reshape their world. It follows how family prestige is gradually overtaken by industrial and financial power, tying private tensions to the changing city around them.

A Fragile Union: New & Selected Writings
Cleis Pr

A Fragile Union: New & Selected Writings

Joan Nestle

A collection of essays and narratives in which Joan Nestle writes about lesbian sexuality, butch-femme relationships, memory, history, and life with illness. Moving between intimacy and politics, the book reflects on the fragility and hope that shape community.