Scholars in the field of children's literature studies began taking an interest in the concept of “liminal spaces” around the turn of the 21st century. For the first time, Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between brings together in one volume a collection of original essays on this topic by leading children's literature scholars. The contributors in this collection take a wide variety of approaches to their explorations of liminal spaces...

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • OPRAH'S #1 MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 • A luminous memoir in essays from the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, who reflects on her origins and the mysteries of memory.“A brilliant, wide-ranging book, nostalgic and tough-minded at the same time. Like Willa Cather and Stephen Crane, Jayne Anne Phillips writes prose that reads like plainspoken poetry, full of startling and vivid images that bring a vanished world back to life...

**PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War—and a brilliant portrait of family endurance against all odds"A tour de force." —Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage**In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness h...

Called “an enduring literary achievement . . . astonishing” by The New York Times, this highly acclaimed debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch introduces the Hampsons, an ordinary, small-town American family profoundly affected by the extraordinary events of history—from the Depression to the Vietnam War.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsHere is a stunning...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024'A haunting story of conflict with hope at its heart' Daily Mail'A tour de force - breathtaking in both its scope and intensity' TAYARI JONES'Shatteringly particular and audaciously universal' ALICE RANDALL'Excellent... Phillips has brought a little more of this foundational American episode into the light' GUARDIAN...

A luminous memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jayne Anne PhillipsJayne Anne Phillips grew up in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia. The distinctly American landscape of Appalachia - dense with forests and small churches, rich in history and misunderstandings - has been the great setting for her fiction, even as she and her boundless imagination have travelled to other times and places.In Small Town Girls, Phillips recreates the plac...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch: the reputation-making debut short story collection that paved the way for a new generation of writers. • “Brilliant … Phillips is a virtuoso.” —The Chicago TribuneJayne Anne Phillips's reputation-making debut collection paved the way for a new generation of writers. Raved about by reviewers and embraced by the likes of Raymond Carver, Frank Conroy, Annie Dillard, and Nadine Gordimer, B...

A deeply moving novel about hopeful beginnings and profound endings - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch'A brilliant writer, utterly original and with an astonishing range' IAN McEWAN'Phillips combines extraordinary perception with extraordinary versatility and power' MARGARET ATWOOD'Shimmering prose, fierce realism and probing meditativeness' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Contributions by Emily Anderson, Elif S. Armbruster, Jenna Brack, Christine Cooper-Rompato, Christiane E. Farnan, Melanie J. Fishbane, Vera R. Foley, Sonya Sawyer Fritz, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Anna Thompson Hajdik, Keri Holt, Shosuke Kinugawa, Margaret Noodin, Anne K. Phillips, Dawn Sardella-Ayres, Katharine Slater, Lindsay Stephens, and Jericho WilliamsReconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond offers a sustained, critical examination of Wilde...

A powerful tale of grief and survival - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch'This novel is cut like a diamond, with such sharp authenticity and bursts of light' ALICE MUNRO'Extraordinary and luminous... the best novel I've read this year' JUNOT DIAZ'Incandescent and utterly original' NEW YORK TIMES'A glowing, powerful and immensely readable paean to th...

A story of love, murder and obsession - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch'Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year... A compulsively readable story' STEPHEN KING'Combines a strange hypnotic and poetic power with the sharp tones of documentary evidence' COLM TOIBIN'Superb' SUNDAY TIMES'Absorbing and captivating' GUARDIAN

'Thrilling and propulsive, glorious and terrifying. Julia Phillips is a brilliant writer' Ann PatchettThey were sisters and they would last past the end of time.Sam and Elena dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where they were born and raised, they and their mother struggle to survive. Sam works on the ferry that delivers wealthy mainlanders to their vacation homes while Elena does bar work at the local golf club, but e...