Search Results for: American
Black Eagle Child
by Ray Young Bear“The American Indian poet and novelist Ray A. Young Bear possesses a robust imagination and a wonderfully droll narrative voice.” –The New York Times…
Bottomland
by Michelle HooverA haunting tale surrounding the disappearance of two German American sisters from a small Iowan farm at the end of WWI and the family left behind, plagued by suspicion and…
The Typist
by Michael KnightThe most ambitious novel to date from the award-winning Southern writer Michael Knight, about a green young American posted to the strange realm of post-World War II Japan, where his…
Red Birds
by Mohammed HanifFrom the prize-winning author hailed as “Pakistan’s brightest voice” (Guardian), comes a powerful and darkly satirical novel about the the harsh, absurd hypocrisies of American intervention in the Muslim world…
Goodbye, Goodness
by Sam Brumbaugh“Goodbye, Goodness is the rock “n” roll Great Gatsby. The American dream, slaughtered during the indie-rock nineties by an author who lived it. . . . Brumbaugh’s a new voice–witty,…
Grove at Home: May 30-June 5
…about Americans, they meant other people, not us, but I felt American, as well as Vietnamese. My parents could use ‘Oriental’ without self-consciousness, but I could not. Something struck me…
Grove at Home: January 3-9
…largest city. It remains the only successful coup ever to take place on American soil. (A few months before this segment aired, we watched as a memorial to one of…
A Man of Two Faces
by Viet Thanh NguyenLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD: The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide…
There’s a Riot Going On
by Peter Doggett“Fascinating . . . There’s a Riot Going On [is] a step toward drawing a distinction between the fanatic and the visionary, the image and the substance.”—Zachary Lazar, Los Angeles…
Hue 1968
by Mark BowdenFrom “a master of narrative journalism” (New York Times Book Review), a riveting history of the biggest and bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War….
