About The Forrests Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition (August 7, 2012) For fans of Zoë Heller and Zadie Smith, a vibrant and vital novel about the way family—with its dysfunctional bonds, sibling love, and rivalry—enduringly defines us. Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From […]
Hannah Tunnicliffe, author of The Color of Tea, on tour July/August 2012
About The Color of Tea Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Scribner; Original edition (June 5, 2012) Macau: the bulbous nose of China, a peninsula and two islands strung together like a three-bead necklace. It was time to find a life for myself. To make something out of nothing. The end of hope and the beginning of it too. […]
Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, on tour June/July 2012
About The Flight of Gemma Hardy • Paperback: 480 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 26, 2012) Taken from her native Iceland to Scotland in the early 1950s when her widower father drowns at sea, young Gemma Hardy comes to live with her kindly uncle and his family. But his death leaves Gemma under the […]
Natalie Serber, author of Shout Her Lovely Name, on tour June/July 2012
About Shout Her Lovely Name • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (June 26, 2012) Mothers and daughters ride the familial tide of joy, regret, loathing, and love in these stories of resilient and flawed women. In a battle between a teenage daughter and her mother, wheat bread and plain yogurt become weapons. […]
Kristina Riggle, author of Keepsake, on tour June/July 2012
About Keepsake • Paperback:384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (June 26, 2012) From the critically acclaimed author of Real Life & Liars and Things We Didn’t Say comes a timely and provocative novel that asks: What happens when the things we own become more important than the people we love? Trish isn’t perfect. She’s […]
Elizabeth Flock, author of What Happened to my Sister, on tour August 2012
About What Happened to my Sister Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (August 7, 2012) From the author of Me & Emma comes a dazzling novel of two unforgettable families bound together by their deepest secrets and haunted pasts—perfect for fans of The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes and The Book of Bright Ideas. Nine-year-old Carrie Parker […]
Jenny Wingfield, author of The Homecoming of Samuel Lake, on tour July/August 2012 on tour
About The Homecoming of Samuel Lake Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (July 10, 2012) Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. And every year, Samuel Lake, a vibrant and committed young preacher, brings his beloved wife, Willadee Moses, and […]
Julia Heaberlin, author of Playing Dead, on tour June/July 2012
About Playing Dead Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books; Original edition (May 29, 2012) “Dear Tommie: Have you ever wondered about who you are?” . The letter that turns Tommie McCloud’s world upside down arrives from a stranger only days after her father’s death. The woman who wrote it claims that Tommie is her daughter–and that she […]
Nikki Gemmell, author of With My Body, on tour June 2012
About With My Body • Paperback:480 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 19, 2012) A wife, a mother of three, she has everything a woman should want—and yet she has gone numb inside. Locked in a never-ending cycle of chores, errands, and mealtimes, she cannot find a way to live her life with the honesty […]
Bianca Zander, author of The Girl Below, on tour June/July 2012
About The Girl Below • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (June 19, 2012) Suki Piper is a stranger in her hometown. . . . After ten years in New Zealand, Suki returns to London, to a city that won’t let her in. However, a chance visit with Peggy—an old family friend who […]