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From Dana Spiotta, the author of Wayward, Eat the Document, and Stone Arabia, “a brilliant novel…about female friendship, the limits of love and work, and costs of claiming your right to celebrate your triumphs and own your mistakes” (Elle). Innocents and Others is about two women who grow...

In the heyday of the 1970s underground, Bobby DeSoto and Mary Whittaker - passionate, idealistic, and in love - design a series of radical protests against the Vietnam War. When one action goes wrong, the course of their lives is forever changed. The two must erase their past, forge new identities, and never see each other again. Now it is the 1990s. Mary lives in the suburbs with her 15-year-old son, who spends hours immersed in the music of his mother's generation.

Stone Arabia tells the story of a brother and sister, Nik and Denise, now in their 40s. Denise is the reluctant caregiver in the family, dealing with an ailing mother and single-parenting her 20-something daughter. Nik is a failed rock musician. Rather than confront his lack of success head-on, Nik creates a fictional world where his imaginary band releases records; they're reviewed; there's correspondence with "fans"; fawning press coverage; and more. It's all very ornate, and somewhat charming; if also deranged.

Sam Raymond, 53, tut das, was viele Frauen in ihrem Alter sich wünschen: Sie ändert ihr Leben. Als sie sich in ein heruntergekommenes Haus im Problemviertel von Syracuse verliebt, kauft sie es kurzerhand. Und bemerkt erst zwei Atemzüge später, dass sie somit wohl ihre Familie verlassen wird. Fortan werden ihre Nächte von Selbstzweifeln und Polizeisirenen zerschnitten. Ihre Tochter antwortet nicht mehr auf ihre Nachrichten. Und in den Augen ihrer Mutter ist Sam ohnehin auf dem Ego-Trip.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A “furious and addictive new novel” (The New York Times) about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning as she flees her suburban life. “A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a...