The Butterfly Mosque

by G. Willow Wilson

The extraordinary story of an all-American girl’s conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing…

Grove at Home: September 13—19

…Ellen Barry’s 2016 New York Times profile — which follows the author as he travels to New Delhi for the above interview, and details some of his views on caste,…

Family Meals

by Michael Tucker

…Foreign Language, Michael Tucker’s Family Meals is a heartwarming book about family and the challenges of caring for an aging parent, set in Italy, Santa Barbara, and New York City….

Miracle of the Rose

by Jean Genet

“Genet can use a brutal phraseology that makes prison life specific and immediate. Yet through his singular sensibility, these elements are transmuted into something fragile, rare, beautiful.” –The New York…

Tokyo Doesn’t Love Us Anymore

by Ray Loriga

“Loriga’s gorgeous, enigmatic new novel . . . could be described in terms of its premise . . . but such a description cheats the prospective reader, because the true…

Road Work

by Mark Bowden

…him, Bowden is that rare reporter whose writing works as well on a small canvas as it does on the big screen.” —Robert S. Boynton, New York Times Book Review…

The English Major

by Jim Harrison

“Harrison spins the common chaff of a road trip into gold. . . . peppered with his characteristic insights and asides. . . . After a long and idiosyncratic literary…

Full Service

by Scotty Bowers

…along the way. . . . Bowers has no regrets—having led a life of pleasure, satisfaction and joy that the rest of us can only envy.” —The New York Post…

Grove at Home: February 21-27

…Here, from New York’s WABC News, is the story. Michael J. Stephen on watching newborns sleep amid “the miracle of gas exchange” After a year in which many around…

For Mother’s Day Read Books on Mothers, Motherhood, and More

…and circumstance. Fi by Alexandra Fuller From the award-winning New York Times–bestselling author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career-defining memoir about grieving…

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