Sylvia Brownrigg

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year

In 1991 Emily Piper is a graduate student finishing her dissertation on metaphysics, when her home and work are destroyed in the Berkeley-Oakland fires. With her life's work in cinders, she retreat...

• Jun-2000
• / General Fiction
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Across a series of vivid, untamed landscapes Sylvia Brownrigg’s characters wander in search of the obviousâ€�"love, fame, a good recipe for canapesâ€�"as well as the less obvious. In “Hussy from the West” the narrator undertakes a ...

• Apr-2001
• / General Fiction
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“[A] modern version of the age-old story of first love and sexual initiation. . . . bathed in a joyful, cloistered mood of sensual celebration.” -- Maria Russo, The New York Times Book ReviewIn a steam-filled diner in a college to...

• May-2007
• / General Fiction
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It is 1998. In the safe haven of her London office -- a room her husband jokingly calls "The Delivery Room" -- therapist Mira Braverman listens to the stories of her troubled patients, including an aristocratic woman going through an intense infertil...

• May-2008
• / General Fiction
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When this novel's unnamed narrator meets the elusive but exciting Richard (an envelope salesman with a nice layman's line in Zen philosophies), he offers her a friendly escape from her dreary domestic life. Burdened by her husband's ongoing negotiati...

• Mar-2013
• / General Fiction
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• Jul-2017
• / Literary
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Two women reunite decades after their passionate affair in this “nuanced, assured, and razor-sharp” novel about motherhood, womanhood, and “what it means to be alive” ( Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train). “A complex portrait o...

• Feb-2018
• / General Fiction
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A woman travels to seven “invisible” countries, and from the moment of arrival she is surprised, challenged, and disturbed by what she discovers. In the brightly colored and somewhat sinister world conjured by American novelist Sylvia Brownrigg,...