Smart, socially gifted, and chronically impatient, Adam and Cynthia Morey are so perfect for each other that united they become a kind of fortress against the world. In their hurry to start a new life, they marry young and have two ch...
For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Richard Russo, Jonathan Dee's novels are masterful works of literary fiction. In this sharply observed tale of self-invention and public scandal, Dee raises a trenchant question: what do we really w...
A decade after being separated from the charismatic Molly Howe when she mysteriously vanishes, artist and advertising designer John Wheelright is reunited with her at Palladio, a Virginia artists' colony and antiadvertising agency led...
Face Reading Plain & Simple: The Only...
Jonathan DeeThe face is the first thing we focus on when meeting any new person--we automatically assess a person's mood, feelings, and intentions by what we "read" on that person's face. We consider some people to have "kind"...
“Summons up a small American town at precisely the right moment in our history . . . a bold, vital, and view-expanding novel.”—George Saunders\r\n\r\nA rural working-class New England town elects as its mayor a New Y...