Tag Archives: Literary
The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez
by John Rechy“A gritty picture of life on the cusp . . . vividly rendered.” —Kirkus Reviews
Misconception
by Ryan Boudinot“What starts out as a fairly standard story of teenagers taking themselves too seriously ends up being a funny and finely hewn examination of…
Miss Burma
by Charmaine CraigSet against the vibrant backdrop of Burma from the 1940s to the 1960s, Miss Burma is a powerful and epic novel that follows one…
The Mezzanine
by Nicholson Baker“A seriously funny book”—Salman Rushdie Nicholson Baker’s stunning and highly influential first novel, a witty and boundlessly inventive homage to the profound, neglected details…
The Middle of Nowhere
by Bob Sloan“Sloan knows New York and New Yorkers right down to their socks, and his novels . . . hum with the brutal vitality of…
Midnight Cactus
by Bella Pollen“Seductive and disturbing ” Alice Coleman is an entertaining heroine.” ––Ann Cummins, San Francisco Chronicle…
Minaret
by Leila Aboulela“Harbors something remarkable beneath commonplace trappings . . . Lit up by a highly unusual sensibility and world view, so rarefied and uncompromising that…
The Memory of Love
by Aminatta FornaFrom the award-winning author of The Devil That Danced on the Water and Ancestor Stones comes The Memory of Love, a beautiful and masterfully…
Mercier and Camier
by Samuel Beckett“A comedy of high style, terser and, I think, funnier than any of his other novels.” —A. Alvarez, The Observer (London)
