Helen is serving a life sentence at Sloatsburg women's prison for the murder of her children. Dr. Louise Forrest, a recently divorced mother of an eight-year-old boy, is the new chief of psychiatry there. Captain Ike Bradshaw is the c...
Remarkable, erotic, intelligent, and daring.'--Vanity FairBy day, Frannie teaches her writing students about irony and language in all its nuance, eccentricity, and unspoken meaning. By night, she compiles a secret dictionary of stree...
Coming of age in Hawaii, Mamie Clarke is devastated by a servant's sexual violence and moves--along with her lovely but self-destructive sister Claire--to her wealthy aunt's Manhattan apartment, entering a world of numbing excesses to...
Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawai'i
Susanna MooreSusanna Moore is best known for her critically acclaimed novelscomplex and compelling works like In the Cut and My Old Sweetheart. Now, Moore’s Light Years is a shimmering look at the early life of this cherished novelist. Taking ...
In the mid-19th century, Lady Eleanor arrives in Calcutta with her brother Henry, who is the new Governor-General there, and her younger sister Harriet. The novel takes the form of Eleanor's diary, which tells the story in both its pe...
Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching ...
Susanna MooreThe dramatic history of America's tropical paradiseThe history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals―from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found th...