Contemporary Fiction | Fiction
Feb.16.2009
In the sultry South Carolina night, thirteen-year-old Ellis Greene was the only witness to a vicious crime against her beloved cousin, a crime that eventually claimed her cousin’s life. Now fifteen years later, the man she helped convict is out on parole . . . and hell-bent on revenge.
A suspect...
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Jan.23.2009
Author Philipp Meyer presents his dramatic debut novel, American Rust—a moving tale of friends in a fading Pennsylvania steel town and the murder that forces them to question their assumptions about each other and those around them. Told from six very different perspectives and unfolding at a...
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Jan.17.2009
This collection of short stories and poetry set in post-Ceauşescu and post-cold war Romania takes readers on a journey through the author’s home town of Brăila in the east of the country.
Exiled Romanian author Bogdan Tiganov explores social, religious and political issues with insightful frankness...
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Dec.30.2008
Some girls grow up with Barbie dolls and E-Z Bake ovens, but not Martha. She has Scorpion Tail, Beelzebub, and the seven battles of the Apocalypse to deal with in addtion to a mother who reads bedtime stories from Fox's Book of Martyrs.
Martha lives in working class Arkansas of the late...
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Dec.29.2008
Set in a small, beachfront Catholic high school, narrated by a beautifully complex heroine—theology teacher Emily Hamilton—All Saints is at once a mystery, a love story, and a powerful rumination on secrets, temptation, and faith.
By life’s midpoint, Emily has...
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Dec.22.2008
INGLISTAN is a novel. Its main protagonist Rabi is an Indian lawyer, who comes to New College, Oxford to do a six-month diploma in Human Rights Law. The novel chronicles the high and low points of his half-year through his interaction with relatives long settled in England, former Indian...
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