Adam Haslett

• Jan-2025
• / Literary
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A mother and son, estranged for years, must grapple with the shared secret that drove their lives apart in this enthralling story about family, forgiveness, and how a fleeting act of violence can change a life forever, by "one of the country's most t...

• May-2016
• / Literary
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Very funny and very pointed, Adam Haslet's "Seibert," honored in the Best American Short Stories 2014, gets to the root of how technology -- our personal obsession with it and its role in creating a society built on surveillance -- disrupts our relat...

• May-2016
• / Literary
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From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most? When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in...

• Feb-2010
• / Literary
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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not A Stranger Here, a stunning, masterful portrait of our modern gilded age. At the heart of Union Atlantic lies a test of wills between a retired history teacher, Charlotte Graves -- who has s...

• Aug-2003
• / General Fiction
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• 2002
• / General Fiction
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In these unforgettable stories, the acclaimed author of Imagine Me Gone explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. The impact is at once harrowing and thrilling. An elderly inventor, burning with...