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The Zigzag Way
by Anita Desai

The Zigzag Way explores cultural fault lines in an evocative story of expatriates and travellers adrift in a foreign land.

"Long before Jhumpa Lahiri . . . long before Monica Ali . . . another novelist was offering us exquisitely detailed portraits of bodies in transit [and] classes in the art of sly and sensuous fiction . . . Anita Desai was a global, migrant writer before such a thing was fashionable . . . In The Zigzag Way, she stakes out new ground and so yields discoveries about places not found on any map." — Time

Afterlands
by Steven Heighton

Afterlands is the harrowing, brilliantly written tale of a small society of castaways who struggle with the harsh arctic and with one other.

"Heighton brilliantly riffs off (and presents snippets of) the diary and memoir of the real-life Lt. George Tyson . . . this novel's scale, its delight in detail and its psychological insight make it an exceptionally satisfying adventure." — Publishers Weekly

Torch
by Cheryl Strayed

A remarkably assured and compassionate debut: large questions of love and loss play out on the intimate scale of a family in small-town Minnesota dealing with the unexpected death of their young mother.

"Strayed delivers a heartbreaking anatomy of one family's grief . . . Beautifully written and authentic in its portrayal of the unexpected fallout a family death can engender." — People, 3 1/2 out of 4 stars

Good Women
by Jane Stevenson

A wicked look at good girls gone bad, from the acclaimed author of Several Deceptions.

"Sly, crafty women get what they want in Jane Stevenson's three clever novellas." — Boston Globe

"Pick up a copy to feed your inner nasty." — Daily Candy