Susan Taylor Chlehak, Author, Susan Taylor Chehak, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $18.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-89919-941-2
This haunting novel, set in the fictive Midwestern town of Harmony, is infused with a dark, edgy presence that occasionally suggests soap opera. Clodine Wheeler is the bemused narrator who strings together brilliant beads of descriptive phrases as...
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Susan Taylor Chehak, Author Fawcett Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-22102-0
Chehak skillfully depicts small-town meanness and ironic generosity in this mesmerizing if melodramatic tale, a Literary Guild selection in cloth, of a Midwestern couple, their violent past and a youthful unwed mother who comes between them. (Mar.)
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Susan Taylor Chehak, Author Washington Square Press $10 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-56779-8
Set in small-town Iowa, Chehak's novel concerns an intense and ultimately dangerous bond between two teenage girls. (June)
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Susan Taylor Chehak, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17.95 (206p) ISBN 978-0-395-51013-1
A clear, dry voice, stripped of sentiment or passion, narrates an absorbing saga of love, madness and murder set in the small town of Wizen River, Neb. The voice belongs to long-widowed Annie Diettermann, who has also endured the death of two young...
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Susan Taylor Chehak, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-395-60198-3
As the narrator of this well-crafted novel observes, ``Just because you maybe can't see something clearly, well, that doesn't mean that it's not there.'' Although Chehak ( Harmony ) here refers to the worm farm that a young girl sees in a heap of...
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Susan Taylor Chehak, Author Doubleday Books $21.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-385-47788-8
In Chehak's darkly gripping new novel, May Caldwell, 16, narrates the grim yet lyrically told story of how pretty Frankie Crane, a 17-year-old orphan from Kentucky, enters May's life in small-town Iowa and turns it inside out. Seemingly ingenuous...
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Susan Taylor Chehak, Author, Susan Taylor-Chehak, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-48452-7
Named, like Chehak's 1990 Harmony, for the small Midwestern town of its setting, this coolly precise, rather muted gothic thriller opens in Oregon, when Rafe Ramsey steals four-year-old Jolie, whom he claims is his daughter, away from her abusive...
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