Loved and Missed
By: Susie Boyt
4.30
Format: None pages, None
Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, …
Want to Read $ 11.99"I wanted it to be true so much it was true. Sometimes in life you have to let your heart and bones off the hook of yourself."-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"I wanted it to be true so much it was true. Sometimes in life you have to let your heart and bones off the hook of yourself."-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"I thought of him as a long-lost relation. A sailor coming into port- agitated, sweat on his brow- who needed somewhere calm to lay his head. He was good company. And it was hard for me to feel I was stealing from anyone when there was so much loss in the air."-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"I thought of him as a long-lost relation. A sailor coming into port- agitated, sweat on his brow- who needed somewhere calm to lay his head. He was good company. And it was hard for me to feel I was stealing from anyone when there was so much loss in the air."-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
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1. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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2. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
3. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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4. Leaving
By: Roxana Robinson
3.87
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more
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"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
5. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
6. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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7. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
8. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more
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9. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
10. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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11. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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12. The Vulnerables
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more
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- 21st century
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"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables
13. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
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"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
14. Dayswork
By: Chris Bachelder
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In wry, epigrammatic prose, Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the … read more
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15. Loved and Missed
By: Susie Boyt
4.30
Format: None pages, None
Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, … read more
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"I wanted it to be true so much it was true. Sometimes in life you have to let your heart and bones off the hook of yourself."-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"I thought of him as a long-lost relation. A sailor coming into port- agitated, sweat on his brow- who needed somewhere calm to lay his head. He was good company. And it was hard for me to feel I was …"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"You ever wish that you’d . . . ’ I waited for more, but her question politely disintegrated. But then, although no more words were forthcoming, she tilted her head slightly and suddenly what she’d as…"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"Jean’s capacity to bounce back in life always impressed me. The way she held herself in high regard. It was a form of personal, almost bodily optimism, you could say. Integrity that went deep and was…"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
16. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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17. The Coast Road
By: Alan Murrin
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more
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18. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
19. Poor Deer
By: Claire Oshetsky
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more
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"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer
"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer
20. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
21. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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