Kathleen Alcott. Other Press, $14.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-59051-529-7
Jackson calls Ida “I”; she is himself, and he her. Their bond is more than love, more than friendship even; it is very nearly a blood link, and the intensity of it seems incestuous at times. In this dreamy, barbed novel, Ida tells the story of this...
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Kathleen Alcott. Riverhead, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59463-363-8
Alcott’s (The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets) new novel takes place in a sprawling Brooklyn brownstone, offering a peek into the complicated lives of the tenants who have come to live in it. The inhabitants include landlord Edith, sliding into...
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Kathleen Alcott. Ecco, $27.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-266252-1
This richly ruminative novel refracts 30 years of American culture and history through the lives of characters who serve as surrogates for their historical counterparts. In 1957, Fay Fern is working as a bartender in her sister’s dive bar in the...
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Kathleen Alcott. Norton, $27.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-324-05188-6
Most of the stories in this stylish collection from novelist Alcott (America Was Hard to Find) follow women in upheaval. In “Part of the Country,” a wife ends a pregnancy much desired by her husband and moves alone to rural California, where her...
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