“A Happy Marriage” by Rafael Yglesias

In a recent interview on NPR’s Fresh Air, author Rafael Yglesias reveals:
One of the reasons that I wrote this novel is that before Margaret ever got ill, I had always wanted to write a novel about a long marriage, especially when I realized in middle age that I had fallen very deeply back in love [...]

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First-time novelist Aravind Adiga wins Booker for “The White Tiger”

“At the heart of the book it is something existential,”…”It’s a quest to break out of the circumstances you find yourself in – it’s a quest for freedom.”
via BBC NEWS | Entertainment | First-time novelist wins Booker

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“The Time It Takes to Fall” by Margaret Lazarus Dean

Margaret Lazarus Dean’s first novel, The Time It Takes to Fall, is a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the ’80s NASA space program.
Dolores Gray has wanted to be an astronaut ever since she can remember. She attends shuttle launches with her father, a technician for NASA, keeps a space journal, and follows [...]

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“American Wife” by Curtis Sittenfeld

Curtis Sittenfeld’s new novel, American Wife, is a thinly veiled portrait of first lady Laura Bush’s life. She paints the portrait of Alice Blackwell—a reserved, thoughtful woman who lives her life as a devoted spouse and mother but possesses a strong moral resolve that often runs counter to her role as the wife of a [...]

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“Lives of the Saints” by Nino Ricci

Originally released in 1990, Lives of the Saints is Canadian author Nino Ricci’s first novel in the Vittorio Innocente trilogy and is published in over a dozen countries (it is published as The Book of Saints in the U.S.).
Ricci successfully evokes typical childhood growing pains, adding a layer of angst in a story rife with [...]

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