Women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter’s story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a
For the first time in trade paperback, the definitive book on writing sex in fiction that is a "wonderful and handy compendium of how to write-and have fun with-sex" (Carolyn See) Five years after it
“Untangles the many truths about hair, and the lives we lead underneath it.” —Pamela Druckerman, author ofBringing Up BebeThese twenty-seven “hair pieces” offer up reflections and revelations about fa
ALMOST, Elizabeth Benedict's fourth novel, is "her most spirited to date" (New York Times Book Review). Forty-something narrator Sophy Chase has just begun a lighthearted, romantically adventurous lif
In this razor-sharp novel of marriage and divorce gone awry, Elizabeth Benedict navigates the turbulent waters of love, power, and vengeance with biting wit and penetrating insight.When the Manhattan
For Denis Johnson, it was Leonard Gardner's cult favorite Fat City; for Jonathan Safran Foer, it was a brief encounter with Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai; Mary Gordon's mentors were two Barnard profess
A splendid introduction to one of the Catholic Church's most important places of Marian pilgrimage offers an overview of the past, present, and future of a sanctuary that attracts six million people e
