A masterful achievement: a joint coming-of-age story and an achingly poignant portrait of the strange, painful, ultimately life-sustaining bonds between sisters.Lark and Robin are half-sisters whose s
Grace is an exceedingly competent and devoted therapist living in Montreal. When she stumbles across a man who has just failed to hang himself, her instinct to help kicks in immediately. Before long,
An anthology of 16 stories by the author of The Missing Person includes “You Are What You Like,” in which a couple's life is derailed by the arrival of a hard-partying friend and “The Idea Man,” in wh
In their various locales--from Montreal (where a prosthetic leg casts a furious spell on its beholders) to New Mexico (where a Soviet-era exchange student redefines home for his hosts)--the characters
When art history grad student Lynn Fleming finds out that Wylie, her younger brother, has disappeared, she reluctantly leaves New York and returns to the dusty Albuquerque of her youth. What she finds
“A skillful storyteller . . . attractively quick-witted and wry.” —J. M. Coetzee“Ohlin has a great eye, a great ear, and all the other equipment auguring a very successful future.”—Jay McInerney“Expec
