After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

Gigi L. Leung

On a weekend morning, college roommates, Ah Li and Panda, wake up with very different reactions to the night before. They have been chased and tear-gassed in the streets of their city after joining tens of thousands of others to protest a national security law that would effectively spell the end of democracy in Hong Kong. Ah Li couldn't get out of bed, her heart heavy with the...

Lee Onhwa

For readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Dallergut Dream Department Store, and The Midnight Library, a sweetly magical and uplifting novel about a young woman who inherits an enchanted bakery that spirits visit on their last stop before the afterlife. Twenty-seven-year-old Yeon-hwa has inherited a neighborhood bakery from her grandmother. Curiously, her grandmother's wil...

Lisa Genova

**National Bestseller** A "riveting page-turner" (Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee) about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder who rejects the stability and approval found in a traditionally "normal" life for a career in stand-up comedy.Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out freshman at NYU. Between schoolwork, exams, n...

Xiaolu Guo

"A propulsive powerhouse of a read."--Marie Claire (UK) "Ambitious, brave, and strange."--Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author, a feminist reimagining of Herman Melville's classic Moby-Dick through the eyes of one inimitable woman and a diverse, swashbuckling crew I must work on a ship as a man . . . I must find freedom on...

Jewell, Lisa

Discover the debut novel of the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell in which the residents of an apartment building confront one another's attractions, distrust, secrets, and lies. Perfect for fans of Dolly Alderton and Jojo Moyes.Welcome to 31 Almanac Road where the walls don't talk, but the people sure do. First, we have Ralph and Smith. Roommates and life-long b...

Rebecca Armitage

An irresistible modern fairy tale about a British princess who must decide between her duty to her family--or to her own heart It's New Year's Day in Tasmania and the life Lexi Villiers has carefully built is working out nicely: she's in the second year of her medical residency, she lives on a beautiful farm with her two best friends Finn and Jack, and she's about to finally...

Jean Rhys

Aperitifs in smoky Montparnasse cafes, cheap hotel rooms, and Marya Zelli, trying to make of her life something substantial to withstand the unreality which surrounds her. Alone, stranded in Paris after her Polish husband is jailed, Marya is befriended by an English couple who take her home with them. Slowly they overwhelm her with their passions as Marya drifts into an affair ...

Jean Rhys

"As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal."? Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your Duck Is My Duck The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, which established Rhys as an astute observer of human tragedy. Her everywoman heroine, Sasha, must confront the loves? and losses? o...

Jean Rhys

Un recorrido por la atormentada vida sentimental de la autora a través de las cuatro novelas que la dieron a conocer al público. Bien mirado, la vida de Jean Rhys fue un catálogo del desamor y ese dolor, esa espera angustiosa del amado y la desolación que sigue al abandono son el tema principal de las cuatro novelas cortas que componen este volumen. Las protagonistasde cada una...

Jean Rhys

«Una de las novelas más geniales del siglo XX.»The TimesAntoinette Cosway busca crear un mundo propio, a medias entre los modales distinguidos de su familia británica y las misteriosas vidas de los isleños jamaicanos. Un joven inglés se casa con ella, pero después del matrimonio empiezan a circular inquietantes rumores sobre el comportamiento de su esposa. A principios de 1940,...

Jean Rhys

Tras largos años de silencio y olvido después de haber publicado, en el período que va de 1927 a 1939, cinco libros escritos «con una sensibilidad demasiado adelantada a su época», Jean Rhys reapareció en 1966 en la escena literaria inglesa con "Ancho mar de los Sargazos", que muchos críticos consideran su obra maestra. Espléndido ejercicio de «literatura en la literatura» pero...

Jean Rhys