This story of a small-town girl with more romance in her soul than she can ever hope to express and a rich imagination is the first novel from Jane Hamilton. It portrays the potentially cruel and violent side of family life as well as the indomitable...
PEN/Hemingway Award Winner: An “enthralling” novel of a woman trapped within a tragically dysfunctional family (Entertainment Weekly). From the New York Times"bestselling author of The Excellent Lombards and A Map of the World, this is ...
An exciting, thought-provoking novel of love as steadfast as an angel's, as deep as God's--a passionate story of mercy and forgiveness as great as heaven itself. How is it that Tabris, a special guardian in God's eyes, has come to commit the one unfo...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the widely acclaimed The Book of Ruth comes a harrowing, heartbreaking drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives."It takes a writer of rare power and discipl...
Walter McCloud is a boy with dreams unlike most. Introduced as a child to the genius of Balanchine and the lyricism of Tchaikovsky, Walter has always aspired to be a dancer. As he grows older, it becomes clear that despite his desire, he lacks the ta...
Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel, this exquisite book confronts real-life issues of alienation and violence from which the author creates a stunning testament to the hu...
When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers a head injury in a bicycle crash, she is left with the mental capabilities of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and ...
Jane Hamilton's novels have won numerous awards, including the PEN/ Hemingway for first fiction, and two of her books were selections of Oprah's Book Club. Though her earlier stories are laced with humor, Hamilton tackles out-and-out comedy for the f...
Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days planning capers with her brother William, competing with her brainy cousin Am...