What it's about: Two rising 70s rock-and-roll artists are catapulted into stardom when a producer puts them together, a decision that is complicated by a pregnancy and the seductions of fame.
What it's about: Collects the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, and her acclaimed novel The Namesake, about and Indian-American boy who grows up conflicted and struggles to come to terms with his cultural heritage.
What it's about: When Sarah, a talented artist, finds her creativity blocked, she confronts visions of her past and future selves before realizing the truth of her parents' marriage.
What it's about: Viewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a tragedy, a beautiful hermit who has survived for years in a marsh becomes targeted by unthinkable forces.
What it's about: A seemingly typical suburban husband discloses the secret ways that his wife of 15 years and he keep their marriage alive and chase away domestic boredom by orchestrating creative ways to get away with murder.
What it's about: Here is the American masterpiece that inspired Emerson to write his famous words to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career." The pages contain a poetry collection described by Karl Shapiro as being "one of the most important literary events in twentieth-century poetry and criticism."
What it's about: When his mother dies, 38-year-old Bartholomew Neil, who doesn't know how to be on his own, discovers a letter in his mother's underwear drawer that causes him to write a series of highly intimate letters to actor Richard Gere, while embarking on a quest to find out where he belongs.
What it's about: Traces more than three decades in the lives of a wealthy Charleston debutante who longs to break free from the strictures of her household and pursue a meaningful life; and the urban slave, Handful, who is placed in her charge as a child before finding courage and a sense of self. By the best-selling author of The Secret Life of Bees.
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