Turbulence

by Jia Pingwa

“A rare, richly detailed, and insightful account of life in a Chinese village during the tumultuous decade of post-Mao reforms. With earthy language and…

Turn of Mind

by Alice LaPlante

“[Like] Anna Quindlen’s Every Last One—a dread-filled, unputdownable page-turner . . . Skillfully written in the memory-loss first person, the book combines murder mystery…

Turning Japanese

by David Mura

“In his memoir Turning Japanese , the poet David Mura brings an intriguing perspective to the New World quest for enlightenment from this ancient…

Turpentine

by Spring Warren

“With a pitch-perfect narrator and a smorgasbord of sensory detail, Spring Warren brings the Old West back to life. Turpentine casts the rebirth of…

Twelve

by Nick McDonell

“Nick McDonell’s Twelve is an astonishing rush of a first novel, all heat and ice and inexorable narrative drive—the kind of novel you finish…

Twelve Bar Blues

by Patrick Neate

“Entertaining. . . . An anything-goes melting-pot hybrid of Ragtime and White Teeth. . . . Twelve Bar Blues blows with all its might…

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

“There is an eager vitality and exuberance to the writing which is exhilarating; a rush of spirit into the world as though all the…

Tropic of Capricorn

by Henry Miller

“Miller has once and for all blasted away the very foundation of human hypocrisy–moral, social, and political. . . . The grandest passages are…

True North

by Jim Harrison

“Harrison consistently commands our attention for his humanity and his tenderness. That he can create such tension in the process—a tension not released until the last page—and in the end forge such violence shows his skill as a storyteller and makes True North a great achievement.” —Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles…

Truth and Bright Water

by Thomas King

“Marvelous . . . This subtle and deceptively simple tale is an elegiac and beautiful tragicomedy about a single summer, two towns, and three…

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