- Location(s): Brighton
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Later 19th Century
At the golden hour, hidden truths and desires come to light . . . In the genteel squares of late-Victorian Brighton, Ellen and Reynold Harper – twins, companions, colleagues – ply their trade as portrait photographers. But at the...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking ‘Roman’ names, and move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1988 and 2011
Winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, this debut novel digs deep into the complexities of family history and relationships. When Etta’s grandmother dies, she is compelled to travel to Myanmar to explore complicated adolescent memories of her...
- Location(s): Pakistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
For weeks, someone has been broadcasting people’s secrets from the minarets of the city’s mosques, striking fear into the hearts of Christians and Muslims alike. Then when shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, and Nargis’s husband, Massud,...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2004
n December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, Michele Ruth Gamburd returned to the village where she had been conducting research for many years and began collecting residents’ stories of the...