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and Patrick Gale in vividly bringing to life gay characters coping with middle age in all its effronteries and affordances

At the heart of this riveting

Charlotte Shane offers a "rigorous and compulsively readable memoir" (New York magazine) exploring what it means to be a heterosexual woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society

Throughout her career

Salvage the Bones Knopf but what if he couldWinner of the National Book Award A New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century An Atlantic Great American Novel of the Last 100 Years "A taut, wily novel, smartly plotted and voluptuously written . . . Jesmyn Ward makes beautiful music, plays deftly with her reader's expectations." Parul Sehgal, New York Times The National Book Award winning novel from the author of Let Us Descend and Men We Reaped a gritty but tender story of family and poverty in