Some of the stories in THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW--an archly didactic title considering the things in it that you've no real need to know--display the grotesque very much for its own sake. The extremity is disproportionate to any human me...

The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. The Mistress...

"A big American story with big American themes" (Elle) from the author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir The Mistress's Daughter In this vivid, transfixing new novel, A. M. Homes presents a darkly comic look at twenty...

The breakthrough story collection that established A. M. Homes as one of the most daring writers of her generation Originally published in 1990 to wide critical acclaim, this extraordinary first collection of stories by A. M. Homes c...

Richard Novak, a middle-aged day trader in Los Angeles, lives a life of affluent isolation. Surrounded by a small army of hired help--a nutritionist, trainer, housekeeper, and masseuse--Novak has no need to venture beyond the confines...

As Quentin Crisp used to say, 'Don't keep up with the Joneses! Drag them down to your level!' This could be the motto of the suburbanites in A.M. Homes's fourth novel, Music for Torching. Homes has a subtle eye and ear for suburban...

In Jack, A. M. Homes gives us a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal—even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchma...

A provocative account of sexual addiction and murder is set inside the mind of a violent sex offender now in his twenty-third year of confinement, as told in erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old college girl, pre...