“The delicacy of [Young’s] writing elevates the drama and gives her two central characters depth and backbone… For all the beauty of Young’s writing, her novel is a dark one...And the murder mystery that drives it is as shocking as anything you’re likely to read for a good long while.”— New York Times Book ReviewA stunning novel that examines the price of loyalty, the burden of regret, the meaning of salvation, and the sacrifices we make for...

Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel * Nominated for the ITW Thriller Award for Best Young Adult NovelA BookPage Best Book of the Year * A People Magazine Best Book of Summer * A Parade Best Book of Summer * A Crime Reads Most Anticipated Book of Summer"Powerful...a breathtaking read, with flawed and authentic characters who hit so close to home that at times it is impossible not to root fo...

Ezra and Hadassah: A Portrait of American Royalty is the remarkable true story of a family torn apart by circumstances beyond their control. Born to mentally challenged parents, Ezra and Hadassah spend the first years of their lives in foster care while keeping ties with their biological parents. Everything changes when the children mysteriously disappear, leaving their parents with no clue as to their whereabouts. While Ezra and Hadassah fight to survive, their sibling bonds of love are t...

When your children are fighting over the very air they breathe, what are exhausted parents supposed to do? We had our kids write grievance essays, where they ratted each other out and told their truths. 20 years later these family essays are hysterically funny records of the insults and struggles of sharing chairs, the tv remote, and chores. Read the kids essays and be reminded of how hard growing up with siblings really is, while you begrudgingly admit you like them."I don't like ...

A stunning debut novel that examines the price of loyalty, the burden of regret, the meaning of salvation, and the sacrifices we make for those we love, told in the voices of two unforgettable women linked by a decades-old family mystery at a picturesque lake house.In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family’s vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys the family—her father commits suicide, and her mother and two older sisters spend the rest...

Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel * Nominated for the ITW Thriller Award for Best Young Adult NovelA BookPage Best Book of the Year * A People Magazine Best Book of Summer * A Parade Best Book of Summer * A Crime Reads Most Anticipated Book of Summer""Powerful...a breathtaking read, with flawed and authentic characters who hit so close to home that at times it is impossible not to root f...

He was the boy next door that I loved. Now he’s the single dad I refuse to let back in.My ex-best friends have been dead to me for four years. I left against my will and then… they stopped talking to me. An entire lifetime of childhood friendships flushed down the drain. Worse yet… I’d been in love with Zac Walsh–the literal boy next door who went through women the way most of us went through underwear–since I was thirteen.Then… he just stopped being my bes...

*Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary with a brand new audiobook recording**Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction**Program includes a bonus conversation between Alice McDermott and Matthew Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of the critically-acclaimed novel, We Are Not Ourselves*Alice McDermott's striking audiobook, Charming Billy, is a study of the lies that bind and the w...

Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American fiction as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer.In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New England prep school. At once a meditation on the twilight of youth and an examination of America's entry into World War II, A Good School tells the stories of William Grove, the quiet boy who becomes an editor of the school newspap...

The New York Times –bestselling author chronicles the highs and lows of a Jewish-American family in this "rich, complex . . . juicy family saga" ( The Washington Post )."A very good book." — The New York TimesAdam Saffron—builder, patriarch, and autocrat—has built a family empire. The Saffron family is successful, prestigious, an...

Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day—and she hasn't been back to the South since.Thirty years later, Billie returns but her father's home is unnervingly secluded: her only neighbors are the McGees, the family whose history has been ent...

Winner of the 2021 Edgar Award for Best First NovelThis “beautifully written, thoughtful page-turner” (Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists) set in Atlantic City blends noir suspense, a missing persons mystery, and female friendship into a haunting, literary page-turner, as two young women become unlikely friends during one fateful summer when mysterious disappearances hit dangerously close to home.