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...

Manhattan attorney Tim Farnsworth, healthy, handsome, and in love with his wife, family, work, and home, is compelled to give it all up when he is stricken with a strange disorder that forces him to walk to the point of exhaustion.

Silas Jones ended his friendship with Larry Ott after Larry was suspected in the disappearance of a girl he was dating, and now, twenty-five years later, another woman has disappeared and Larry is once again implicated, leaving Silas, the local constable, questioning what he really knows about his old friend.

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.

A twenty-year reunion is the catalyst that causes Billy Mogavero to make the social leap to respectability and conformity; but when his new wife, Maureen, and their unborn child are victims of a drive-by shooting, Billy's life takes a sudden turn.

An intense debut novel explores what happens when lies cause more damage than the secrets they hide, tracing the story of Lucy, who reflects on the shattering loss of her two young children and on the youthful attractiveness that led her into relationships with two complicated men.

"Matty Melgren is a convicted serial killer serving life without parole for the murders of several women in London in the 1980s. He has consistently protested his innocence, and the evidence against him was largely circumstantial. At the time of his arrest, Matty's girlfriend was Amelia-Rose, a single mother to 12-year-old Sophie. Sophie adores Matty. He's handsome, funny, respectable-she could never suspect him of the brutal killings in the headlines....

Samantha's delight in her baby daughter does not keep her from feeling she has lost something of herself in giving up her artistic dreams to become a mother, but she is able to come to terms with her doubts, as well as secrets of the past, when a box of her late mother Iris's belongings arrives on her doorstep, containing revelations about Iris, and Sam's grandmother Violet.

New York Times Bestseller

The profound and compelling story of a personal quest for meaning and faith from Wally Lamb, #1 New York Times bestselling author of She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True

“The beauty of The Hour I First Believed, a soaring novel as amazingly graceful as the classic hymn that provides the title, is that Lamb never

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A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky. For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours,...