A Dual Inheritance
10 best books like A Dual Inheritance (Joanna Hershon): Subtle Bodies, The Conditions of Love, Gloria, This Bright River, The Office of Mercy, Pale Horses, Wise Men, Brewster, Ace, King, Knave, Sarah's Shadows
In his long-awaited new novel, Norman Rush, author of three immensely praised books set in Africa, including the best-selling classic and National Book Award-winner Mating, returns home, giving us a sophisticated, often comical, romp through the particular joys and tribulations of marriage,...
| Author | Dale M. Kushner |
| ISBN | 1455519758 |
Dale M. Kushner's novel The Conditions of Love traces the journey of a girl from childhood to adulthood as she reckons with her parents' abandonment, her need to break from society's limitations, and her overwhelming desire for spiritual and erotic love. In 1953, ten-year-old Eunice lives in the backwaters...
| Author | Keith Maillard |
| ISBN | 0060935979 |
Gloria, a recent college graduate, class of '57, has everything a girl could want. Expected to make a brilliant marriage to a wealthy but conventional man, Gloria finds herself torn between society's expectations and her own search for a future that is both passionate and fulfilling. Her quest uncovers...
| Author | Patrick Somerville |
| ISBN | 0316129313 |
Ben Hanson's aimless life has bottomed out after a series of bad decisions, but a surprising offer from his father draws him home to Wisconsin. There, he finds his family fractured, still reeling from his cousin's mysterious death a decade earlier.
Lauren Sheehan abandoned her career in medicine...
| Author | Ariel Djanikian |
| ISBN | 0143124374 |
Twenty-four-year-old Natasha Wiley lives in America-Five — a high-tech, underground, utopian settlement where hunger and money do not exist, everyone has a job, and all basic needs are met. But when her mentor and colleague, Jeffrey, selects her to join a special team to venture Outside for the...
| Author | Jassy Mackenzie |
| ISBN | 1616952210 |
Book 4 in the PI Jade de Jong thriller series set in South Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa: At first, the case appears to be one of simple misadventure. Sonet Meintjies, a base jumper, falls to her death while attempting to parachute off a newly built sixty-five-story skyscraper. But Sonet’s...
| Author | Stuart Nadler |
| ISBN | 0316126489 |
Hilly Wise is the son of one of the most powerful and wealthy lawyers in the United States. When Hilly meets Savannah, a young black girl on the beach at Cape Cod during the summer of 1952, his affection for her collides with his father's secrets. The result shatters his family, and hers.
Years...
| Author | Mark Slouka |
| ISBN | 0393348830 |
Warning: this is a guy’s review for guys. Men aren’t supposed to read novels, but it’s been documented that doing so won’t actually kill us. So sensitive souls take note, this review contains some violence and adult language.
First a question: did you ever read Catcher in the Rye? If...
| Author | Maria McCann |
| ISBN | 0571297609 |
Behind doors is another story. Behind doors you can do what you like.
Sophia - rational, demure, and hiding a 'little weakness' - has recently married the charismatic Mr Zedland. But Zedland has secrets of his own and Sophia comes to suspect that her marriage is not what it seems.
In...
Sarah can’t believe she’s dead. But apparently she is, because no one can see or hear her—at least not until her recently deceased brother Jesse shows up.
Jesse explains they must save their father, who killed himself in despair after Jesse's death and is stuck in the ominous dead space...
| Author | Sam Halpern |
| ISBN | 0062233165 |
A warm and nostalgic debut novel from an unexpected source: Sam Halpern, whose salty paternal wisdom made Justin Halpern's Sh*t My Dad Says a phenomenal bestseller.
Inspired by Sam Halpern's childhood in rural Kentucky, A Far Piece to Canaan tells the story of Samuel Zelinsky, a celebrated...
| Author | Veronica Gonzalez Peña |
| ISBN | 1584351209 |
The lyrical story of a Mexican family torn apart by the fragility and madness of one of its members.
Told by six women in one family, Veronica Gonzalez Pena's The Sad Passions captures the alertness, beauty, and terror of childhood lived in proximity to madness. Set against the backdrop of a...
| Author | Mahi Binebine |
| ISBN | 1935639536 |
On May 16, 2003, fourteen suicide bombers launched a series of attacks throughout Casablanca. It was the deadliest attack in Morocco’s history. The bombers came from the shantytowns of Sidi Moumen, a poor suburb on the edge of a dump whose impoverished residents rarely if ever set foot in the cosmopolitan...
The Morels─Arthur, Penny, and Will─are a happy family of three living in New York City. So why would Arthur choose to publish a book that brutally rips his tightly knit family unit apart at the seams? Arthur's old schoolmate Chris, who narrates the book, is fascinated with this very question as he...
| Author | Dagmara Domińczyk |
| ISBN | 0812993551 |
A vibrant, engaging debut novel that follows the friendship of three women, from their coming of age in a small town in Poland in the 1980s to their complicated adult lives, by the stunning and talented actress Dagmara Dominczyk.
Anna's family emigrate to the U.S. in the 1980s when she is just...
| Author | Natalie Brown |
| ISBN | 0385536755 |
A spectacularly original, vibrant, and spirited debut narrated by a shy, sensitive college student who, in her search for love and family, must flee everything she knows.
Margie Fitzgerald has always had a soft spot for helpless creatures. Her warm heart breaks, her left ovary twinges, and...
| Author | Mary Kay Zuravleff |
| ISBN | 0374202311 |
A warm, funny, and profoundly original novel about a family
dealing with disaster, from a rising literary star.
All it takes is a quarter to change pediatric psychiatrist Dr. Owen Lerner’s life. When the coin he’s feeding into a parking meter is struck by lightning, Lerner survives,...
| Author | Louisa Hall |
| ISBN | 1451688636 |
A gorgeous debut novel from an award-winning poet and world champion squash player about an old moneyed family, facing the loss of the youthful talent and storied history that defined them.
After suffering a stroke, patriarch William Adair wakes up in his hospital bed and realizes that his...
| Author | Rilla Askew |
| ISBN | 0142000248 |
Set during the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush, Rilla Askew's Fire in Beulah is a mesmerizing story that centers on the complex relationship between Althea Whiteside, an oil wildcatter's high-strung wife, and Graceful, her enigmatic black maid. Their juxtaposing stories—and those of others...
| Author | Sharon Pomerantz |
| ISBN | 0446563188 |
Robert Vishniak is the favored son of Oxford Circle, a working-class Jewish neighborhood in 1970s Philadelphia. Handsome and clever, Robert glides into the cloistered universities of New England, where scions of unimaginable wealth and influence stand shoulder to shoulder with scholarship paupers...
Laura Warholic or, the Sexual Intellectual
| Author | Alexander Theroux |
| ISBN | 1560977981 |
Eugene Eyestones, an erudite sex columnist for a Boston cultural magazine, becomes enmeshed in the messy life of a would-be artist named Laura Warholic. Repulsing and fascinating him at the same time, she becomes a mirror in which he not only sees himself but through which he is forced to face his own...
| Author | Ciarán Collins |
| ISBN | 1608198758 |
Meet Charlie. People think he's crazy. But he's not. People think he's stupid. But he's not. People think he's innocent...
He's the Gamal.
Charlie has a story to tell, about his best friends Sinead and James and the bad things that happened. But he can't tell it yet, at least not 'til...
| Author | A.X. Ahmad |
| ISBN | 1250016843 |
Who is the caretaker hiding in the shadows of the Martha's Vineyard mansions he tends?
Back in India, Ranjit Singh commanded an elite army squad. But that was years ago, before his Army career ended in dishonor, shattering his reputation. Driven from his homeland, he is now a caretaker on the...
| Author | Tom Piccirilli |
| ISBN | 0345529006 |
Professional thief Terrier Rand hasn’t gotten caught yet. It’s only his conscience chasing at his heels.
In the follow-up to Tom Piccirilli’s acclaimed novel The Last Kind Words, prodigal thief Terrier Rand has come home to the family that has lawbreaking in its blood. With generations...
| Author | Cécile David-Weill |
| ISBN | 1590515730 |
A comedy of manners that serves as an insightful look at the lives of those in the upper classes.
After two sisters, Laure and Marie, learn of their parents’ plan to sell the family’s summer retreat, L’Agapanthe, they devise a scheme for attracting a wealthy suitor who can afford to...
