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It is autumn, 1997 and Kate Thuringer is back in her hometown to help her...
This offbeat story collection effortlessly captures dark underworlds and the eccentric characters that inhabit them....
Vinnie and Me, Fiorella De Luca Calce's second novel, could be considered the second part...
Take Me to Coney Island illuminates the changing perceptions and many initiations of Hanna Davidson,...
We all know adults who are stranded in the amber of adolescence. Growing older but...
Two brothers come to school and do nothing but tell stories. A young woman works...
Daniel, a young French-Vietnamese man, lies dying in a Montreal hospital. Spurned by his family for contracting AIDS in Provincetown, Daniel spends his last months in despair. Only his cousin Mai stays by his side to record the darkest of family secrets. From French Indochina to present day North America, this novel follows three generations of a Vietnamese family as they endure their own folly and the whims of history.
"My cousin Daniel passed away 28 years ago. The premature death of a talented young man brought incredible guilt to the family. And no one suffered this loss more than my mother. My mother did not wail like Uncle Hai did at the funeral parlour. Yet her silence spoke louder... "
