Henry Carter Hull

It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's unnamed young protagonist from others is nearly complete when she initiates her yearlong siesta, during which time she experiences limited personal interactions. Her parents have died; her relationships with her bulimic best friend Reva, an ex-boyfriend, and her drug-pushing psychiatrist are unwholesome. As her pill-popping intensifies, so does her isolation and determination...

Nina, still holding the hand of her husband Philip, who has just died, looks back over their forty-three years of marriage, recalling the defining moments of their life together.

Reporter Nick Lasseter's pitiful life and career take a turn for the better when he stumbles upon a story that has the potential to make his career and bring him national celebrity.

Susan's desperate search for her missing husband Christopher, who suffers from dementia, throws her together with Jeff, her police liaison, and Corey, a troubled boy, and together the tree embark on a journey that will change their lives forever.

After losing virtually everything meaningful in his life, Benjamin trains to be a caregiver, but his first client, a fiercely independent teen with muscular dystrophy, gives him more than he bargained for and soon the two embark on a road trip to visit the boy's ailing father.

Four women, part of a group of classmates from Blue Ridge women's college who traveled down the Mississippi on a homemade raft in 1965, reunite thirty-five years later to share their memories, examine how their lives have turned out, and sprinkle the ashes of a fifth friend in the waters off New Orleans.

John William Barry and Neil Countryman are brought together by their mutual love of the outdoors; but when Neil asks John to help him disappear into Washington's backcountry, he finds himself in the center of secrets and deceit that will shatter his life.

Fifteen-year-old Jonas, the only survivor of his family after the U.S. bombs his Middle Eastern country, relocates to America where he tells a counselor about Christopher Henderson, an American soldier who disappeared after saving him.

Thirtysomething Emily Wilson, having agreed to visit her great-aunt Bee on Bainbridge Island and trying to cope with her divorce while doing research for her next novel, finds a diary from 1943 and realizes the life of its anonymous author is connected to hers, sending Emily on a path of facing her past and looking to her future.