Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked...

In the vein of The Couple Next Door, a debut psychological thriller about a woman who moves with her family to the gothic seaside house where her husband grew up -- and where 15 years ago another family was brutally slaughtered.

"The second book in The Long Road Home series, a unique and gripping Amish romance trilogy set in the South at the turn of the century. At the end of Banished, Clinton has died and May is left to fend for herself in a city where she knows almost no one and has no way of earning a living. Not knowing where Oba had wound up and realizing she can't return to her uncle's home after all he'd put her through, she decides to journey to the Amish community...

"Claudia seeks the attention of her melancholic mother, also named Claudia, who occupies her days reading gossip magazines and tending to the family's teeming collection of house plants in their Cali, Colombia, apartment. The mother is particularly obsessed with the deaths of famous women such as actor Natalie Wood, who died in 1981, and tells the narrator they took their own lives to escape from domineering men. The older Claudia married the narrator's...

Ofeḳ mitʻaḳesh le-hishʼaer yeled bayit, gam keshe-en yoter bayit. Keshen-ishlaḥ li-penimiyah...lo mukhan la-tet le-penimiyah le-hidaveḳ bo.... -- Ofeḳ does not want to blend in to the communal nature of dorm life. Here and there shines some uncertain brightness: Dianah, who knows who does what, Etan, his counselor; mail to the social worker.--

"Leda, a 47-year-old divorced mother, is alone for the first time in years after her now adult daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection. She spends her summer vacation on a beach on the southern Italian coast watching a young mother and her little girl play. When the girl loses her doll, Leda commits a small crime that she can't explain even to herself." --