Stacey D'Erasmo
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In Stacey D'Erasmo's acclaimed second novel, a quintessentially modern family is ultimately transformed by the emerging breakdown of their teenaged son, Christopher. When he disappears from his San Francisco home, his extended family comes together in a frantic search. But Christopher is in much more trouble than they know, and their attempts to support him and to save him will challenge their assumptions about themselves and one another. Exquisitely...
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"After her husband Alan’s massive white-collar crimes are exposed, Suzanne’s wealthy, comfortable life shatters: Alan goes to prison, and Suzanne files for divorce. Ignoring a steady stream of calls from her ex at Norfolk State Prison, Suzanne thinks she can cleanse herself of all connections to her ex-husband and their old life together. Instead, she decamps to a Massachusetts beach town where she creates a new life and identity. Then Alan is...
3) Wonderland
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Anna is a rock star, an immediate indie sensation. But she went down as fast as she went up and walked off the scene for seven years. She sells a piece of her father's art to finance one more album and a comeback tour. Anna is 44, and this may be her last chance for the life she chose, the life she struggled for, the life she's not sure she can sustain. She falls back easily into the ways of the road: sex with strangers, and the search for the perfect...