Patchett follows 2023’s Tom Lake with another perfectly executed and quietly profound family drama. Daphne, a 53-year-old happily married English teacher, is at the Metropolitan Continue reading »
Bond’s gut-punch of a debut centers on Hope House, a Kentucky group home for a motley crew of boys who, in the 1980s, don’t have much of a future ahead of them—most likely Continue reading »
Ojeda (Jawbone) delivers an intense and remarkable polyphonic hymn to the consoling and destructive power of music. Two friends, teen girls Nicole and Noa, leave their violent Continue reading »
Orphan Train author Kline offers a daring and deeply empathetic tale of the sisters who married conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874). Immigrants from Siam, Chang and Continue reading »