The Gardens Of Kyoto

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A thought-provoking novel that opens a window into the world of a generation and class of women caught in a cultural limbo.From the award-winning author of The Gardens of Kyoto comes this witty and incisive novel about the lives and attitudes of a group o

The Sunken Cathedral

A deeply moving novel that follows a cast of characters as they negotiate one of Manhattan's swiftly changing neighborhoods, extreme weather, and the unease of twenty-first-century life.From the National Book Award nominee and author of the acclaimed, New

A Short History of Women

The novel opens in England in 1915, at the deathbed of Dorothy Townsend, a suffragist and one of the first women to integrate Cambridge University. Her decision to starve herself for the cause informs and echoes in the later, overlapping narratives of her

The Best American Short Stories 2012

The Best American Series®First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journal