This powerful story is set in 1851 in the Arctic: a Lutheran minister's Sami convert has a son who inconveniently has a love affair with the minister's daughter.
A lesbian couple - one of whom is an egotistical, bullying narcissist - decide to have children. The novel turns on what happens when the decent one finally determines to leave, taking at le... read more
The narrator, an undercover agent in her mid-thirties, has been sent to spy on a group of eco-activists in France. A wry, sleuthing novel by the author of The Mars Room.
Another huge novel from the author of City On Fire. A teenage girl and her father navigate relationships, addiction and other threats to serenity in New York.