Quotidian details of an apparently perfect domestic life spell suspense in Berne's second novel (after A Crime in the Neighborhood), set in the small New England town of New Aylesbury. Mirella Cook-Goldman works for a Boston law firm; her...
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Suzanne Berne, Author . Algonquin $23.95 (292p) ISBN 978-1-56512-334-2
This taut psychological drama by Orange Prize–winner Berne (A Crime in the Neighborhood
) unfolds as San Francisco freelance writer Cynthia Fiske acquiesces to her maternal older sister, Frances, and attends the Thanksgiving family reunion...
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Suzanne Berne, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $17.95 (294p) ISBN 978-1-56512-165-2
Set in 1972, against the steamy summer of a Washington, D.C., suburb filled with the buzz of locusts and Walter Cronkite's breaking news reports on Watergate, Berne's marvelously controlled first novel explores the effect of a boy's brutal murder on
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Suzanne Berne. Simon & Schuster, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4767-9424-2
Berne (A Crime in the Neighborhood), winner of the Orange Prize (now called the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction), has done it again with her latest insightful, character-driven novel about life in modern suburbia. Littlefield, Mass., is an idyllic
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Suzanne Berne, read by Carol Monda. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, 7 CDs, 8.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-5113-3568-3
Berne’s novel combines elements of a mystery and a family saga with scathing dark humor about contemporary American suburbia. The idyllic college town of Littlefield, Mass., prides itself on it education, tolerance, and enlightenment, but it...
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Suzanne Berne. Scribner/Rucci, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4767-9426-6
Berne (The Dogs of Littlefield) offers an engrossing story of family secrets involving a woman’s estranged mother and her troubled son. Lorna is a successful therapist in Massachusetts whose husband has moved to Seattle and is living with his much...
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