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A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the author of A Million Nightingales (“a writer of exceptional gifts and grace”—Joyce Carol Oates) comes a luminous new novel about the forces that tear families apart and the ties that...

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A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the author of A Million Nightingales ("a writer of exceptional gifts and grace"-Joyce Carol Oates) comes a luminous new novel about the forces that tear families apart and the ties that bind th...

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Sharron was five when her father gave her the Friskative Dog. And just like the best-loved toys from The Velveteen Rabbit, Sharron has made the Friskative Dog real through her love and devotion.Now Sharron is nine, and her father is missing, and t...

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From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight comes a haunting historical novel about a Louisiana slave girl's perilous journey to freedom.Daughter of an African mother and a white father she never knew, Moinette is a house maid on a plantation...

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From the National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, Mecca is a stunning epic tracing the intertwined lives of native Californians fighting for life and land Johnny Frias has California in his blood. A descendant of the state's Indigenous people ...

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One of The Washington Post's Ten Best Books of 2022. Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize and the 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. One of the New York Times' 10 Best California Books of 2022 and one of NPR's Best Books of 2022. A New York Times Boo...

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The Thompson clan tries to deal with the chaos after their family patriarch finds the burning bodies of two white women on his property and is then acidentally gunned down by police.

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"A wide and deep view of a dynamic, multiethnic Southern California . . . Susan Straight is an essential voice in American writing and in writing of the West." - The New York Times Book Review Named a Most Anticipated Book of March 2022 ...

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Haunting and beautifully written, this novel of 19th-century Louisiana is the tale of a slave girl's journey--emotional and physical--from captivity to freedom.

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Aquaboogie is a love story in fragments . . . A book by a writer whose love for her characters infuses her work with the dignity and urgency they so clearly deserve. The New York Times Book Review Full of defiance and tenderness, Aquaboogie chroni...

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“All the heavy hitters, from Michael Connelly in Los Angeles to Joyce Carol Oates in suburban New Jersey . . . an important anthology.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)  Features Dennis Lehane&rsqu...

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"Straight's portrayal of a black woman's life is nearly miraculous in its astonishing richness of detail, its emotional honesty and its breadth of human thought and feeling." - USA Today Evoking the Gullah-speaking 1950s community of Pin...

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