“Allison Amend is a gifted storyteller, whose view of contemporary life is often wonderfully acute, original, and surprising.” -- Alison Lurie, author of Foreign Affairs: a NovelAllison Amend’s writing is both thoughtful and entertaining, with ...
Oklahoma is a forgotten territory of "Indians, outlaws, and immigrants" when its first Jewish settler, Boggy Haurowitz, arrives in 1859. Full of expectations, he finds the untamed region a formidable foe, its landscape rugged, its resources strain...
Richly drawn and sharply observed, A Nearly Perfect Copy is a smart and affecting novel of family and forgery set amidst the rarefied international art world. Elm Howells has a loving family and a distinguished career at an elite Manhattan auctio...
Tells tales of India during the Mughal era, viewed from the contrasting mindsets of European aides to the two leading princes, Dara Shikoh and Aurangzeb. Niccalao Manucci and Francois Bernier offer insights into the minds of their respective princes ...
Inspired by the midcentury memoirs of Frances Conway, ENCHANTED ISLANDS is the dazzling story of an independent American woman whose path takes her far from her native Minnesota when she and her husband, an undercover intelligence officer, are sent ...