When a near shipwreck strands a young couple on an uncharted island in the Pacific, they encounter a mysterious woman who may or may not be the legendary aviator Amelia Earhart but who has been stranded on the remote strip of land for more than forty...
"A love story, a war story, an ecological adventure, a biological poem, and a treatise on the fragility of life--Darwin's Wink has it all. The writing is so incantory that it almost floats off the page. In Fran, Alison Anderson has created a strong, ...
What if Anton Chekhov, undisputed master of the short story, actually wrote a novel -- and the manuscript still existed? This tantalizing possibility drives "The Summer Guest," a spellbinding narrative that draws together, across two centuries, the...