How long can they hide from the truth—how long before they must face the most impossible choice of their lives? Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter’s complex yearning for her father. This debut of a blazingly original voice “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, author of There There). He meets Violet Markey, who struggles with moving on after the recent death of her sister, and they both launch a project to explore the beauty of their state. I can see how some people can think it was depressing, but I didn't come away from it feeling that way, personally.

This love story focuses in on Lily Dane and the love of her life, Nick, who has left her for her best friend Budgie. Hattie gives birth to nine more children, whom she raises with grit, mettle, and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. After being abandoned by her parents at a young age, Maya continues to endure more hardship and trauma, including rape, homelessness, and racist oppression.When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation: slaves take to escaping under the cover of night, and families who had once found love beneath the weight of slavery begin to betray one another. I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood.

Amir often behaves cowardly and doesn’t help his friend, but Hosseini excels in simultaneously creating sympathy for him, despite numerous betrayals. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously signs himself as “the Old Musician” and claims to have known her father in the Khmer Rouge prison where he disappeared twenty-five years ago. Stay with Me takes a no-holds-barred look at the fragility of married love, the nature of grief and the all-consuming bonds of motherhood. It may be a story of a lost love, or grief from the death of a loved one, or the moral downfall of a previously-loved heroine.And Riley must make a choice: walk away from what the blog has created—a lifeline, new friends, a cause to believe in—or stand up, come out, and risk everything. In “A Temporary Matter,” published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillbirth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. Two emerge—Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious “Dark Man,” who delights in chaos and violence. Without quite knowing why, these two outsiders are drawn together, each sensing in the other the possibility of salvation. Lorrie Moore’s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs — a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heart.

Nina Riggs was just thirty-seven years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer—one small spot. In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before our eyes; we hear both delightful and bitter childhood memories, amazing anecdotes of youthful years, and the most intimate secrets passed along in whispers. In this cautionary rhyming tale we learn of the Once-ler, who came across a valley of Truffula Trees and Brown Bar-ba-loots, and how his harvesting of the tufted trees changed the landscape forever.somehow i find virginia woolf's books depressing too, mrs dalloway and the waves had me sobbing all night. What emerges is a breathtaking bow before the central paradox of the human experience — the awareness that the heart’s enormous capacity for love is matched with an equal capacity for pain, and yet we love anyway and somehow find fragments of that love even amid the ruins of loss. So when Kate leaves San Diego to attend college in the small town of Grant, Minnesota, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with Keller Banks. If you are not the type of person to choose a sad book over a happy one, you may wonder why in the world someone would choose to pick up a book that could make you cry.