Lorna, a respected psychotherapist, struggles to make her estranged mother a part of the family while also trying to break through to her son, Adam, who has returned from college after an incident he refuses to discuss.
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Sociologist Clarice Watkins has moved to Littlefield, Massachusetts, to study the residents of a town considered one of the best places in America to live. She discovers the townspeople are discontented, and someone is poisoning the local dogs. Some strong language and some descr...
A girl annoyed by a neighbor flirting with her mother accuses him of sexual abuse and murder. She is Martha, 10, and in the summer of 1972 the suburb of Spring Hill in Washington is more than ready to believe her, a child having been raped and murdered. The novel examines what ca...
Mirella and Howard Cook-Goldman are living the American dream--two careers, two kids, a golden retriever, a historic colonial home in a quaint New England village--and it's a nightmare.
"A "brilliantly done" (Sunday Times, London) comedy of manners that explores the unease behind the manicured lawns of suburban America from the Orange Prize-winning author of A crime in the neighborhood. Littlefield, Massachusetts, named one of the Ten Best Places to Live in Amer...
The author attempts to recreate her grandmother's life, using a few family documents to depict a complex woman, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, a college graduate, and someone who visited wartime France, before her untimely death as a young mother.
An award-winning author's reconstruction of her grandmother's life "takes us deep into the lore of history as well as family" (Sven Birkerts). Even as a child, Suzanne Berne understood the source of her father's terrible melancholy: He'd lost his mother when he was a little b...
Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain "devoted"-as long as they stay on opposite coasts. When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy fami...
A confused and lonely ten-year-old girl, Marsha, a witness to her siblings' deviant behavior, her father's affair, and her mother's flirtation with the new neighbor, produces the only lead in a case of sexual assault and murder.
Mr. and Mrs. Cook-Goldman need a nanny for their two children. When they hire Randi, they fail to check her references. The convenient new arrangement soon leads to a string of troubling events.