Jessica Francis Kane

• Jul-2002
• / General Fiction
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A collection of stories set in the U.S. and London portrays characters at odds with the patterns of their lives, from a mathematician who forsakes everything to prove a theory, to a young New York publicist trying to make ends meet, to a woman author...

• Sep-2010
• / Historical
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A stunning first novel that is an evocative reimagining of a World War II civilian disasterOn a March night in 1943, on the steps of London's Bethnal Green tube station, 173 people die in a crowd seeking shelter from what seemed to be another air rai...

• Mar-2013
• / Literary
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This Close, a graceful, moving new collection by the author of The Report *An NPR and Flavorwire Best Book of the Year *How close can we come to love, success, happiness, forgiveness?An older woman, irritated with her wealthy young neighbor's yard "i...

• May-2019
• / Literary
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A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year. At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the ye...

• Aug-2025
• / Historical
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The story acclaimed English author Penelope Fitzgerald never wrote, of her real-life journey to Mexico with her son in search of a much-needed inheritance, by Jessica Francis Kane, bestselling author of Rules for VisitingWinter 1952. Penelope Fitzger...