Laura and Dan Courser are less than perfect, but deeply passionate couple with young children and lots of plans. Until Dan, displaying the boyish bravado that made Laura fall in love with him, takes the tiller of a boat he can't handle and causes ...
Her gifts are limitless.... Rosellen Brown can do anything with language.—Cynthia Ozick All the stories in this remarkable cycle of stories are assigned an address. Each is also a separate life, yet part of the larger life that a neighborhood i...
Tragedy thrusts married Lefties Jessie and Teddy Carll into the role of parents when Teddy's rich, bigoted sister and her husband are killed in a car accident and his sister's children move into their home. Reprint. NYT. LJ. ...
The New York Times bestseller from Rosellen Brown, Before and After -- the basis for the major film of the same name starring Meryl Streep Liam Neeson -- tells the extraordinary story of a family's struggle to survive the throes of a tragedy.Carolyn ...
An unforgettable novel about race and motherhood from the bestselling author of Before and AfterOnce a Civil Rights activist, Miriam Vener feels trapped in the comfortable upper-middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston in the 1980s. Tha...
The New Stories from the Midwest (2013) anthology seeks to support and spotlight the flourishing crop of Midwestern writers who consistently produce work that is innovative, finely crafted, and strong in voice. The anthology will be released from New...
The Lake on Fire is an epic narrative that begins among 19th century Jewish immigrants on a failing Wisconsin farm. Dazzled by lore of the American dream, Chaya and her strange, brilliant, young brother Asher stowaway to Chicago; what they discover t...