First Love (New York Review Books Classics)A raw and engrossing portrait of familial and marital dysfunction by one of Britains most original young writers (The Observer). Neve is a writer in her mid thirties married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of relative peace, but their past battles have left scars. As Neve recalls the decisions that led her to this marriage, she tells of other loves and other debts, from her bullying father and her self involved mother to a musician

has sent Faraz back to Lahore

Unable to speak

It's a story about how a small American suburb became a powerful engine for economic growth and war

As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen

its fifteen-year-old narrator moves numbly through a world of motel rooms

and rejects notions of “girl power

Hélène Bessette is a treasure and a bracing force to reckon with

and California

ever-curious

Born in Brooklyn

An experimental intervention into the autobiographical genre

sagacious shopper Kevin Killian holds forth on these household essentials and many