Charlie Martens is desperate for stability in an otherwise peripatetic life. An explosion that killed his parents when he was young robbed him of normalcy and he was shuttled from relative to relative, left alone to decipher the world he encountered ...
Daisy, Paque and Stella want to be famous. Inspired by their idols, Bananarama , they form a pop group of their own. But Stella heads to LA to become an actress and lusting after bad-boy rocker Bryan Metro. Paque and Daisy, without Stella, are just a...
World Gone Water enlarges the portrait of Charlie Martens, first introduced in Vernon Downs , a young man grappling with how to navigate the world. Set in Phoenix, seven years before the events of Vernon Downs , Charlie finds himself released from...
Garden Lakes , Jaime Clarke's third novel featuring Charlie Martens, finds Charlie employed as an Arizona newspaper columnist who has built his career on a deception he committed that inadvertently stirred up anti-immigrant sentiment, casting a pall ...
A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY SELECTIONAll novels are necessarily concerned with their protagonists, but what of the minor characters that fill out a novel's landscape? We can never know them as well as we should or like. The same is true for the...