Famed restaurateur Eddie Huang's sharp, funny memoir is a blueprint of American entrepreneurialism and a family narrative drenched in dysfunction. Huang proves that food, instead of being showmanship, is a social expression.
You may be familiar with the film, The Shipping News, but the novel includes unforgettable characters against the fierce nature of Newfoundland and a slow-blooming romance that seems more real than anything Hollywood could conjure up.
Edmund de Waal, the distinguished English potter and great-grandson of Viktor Ephrussi, takes us on a picaresque journey, back in time and across continents, to uncover the history of his family and the secrets of their fabled netsuke collection.
There are few cultures more extrinsically opposite in nature than those belonging to Americans and Arabs. Sophia Al-Maria knows this firsthand, as her formative years were spent making the leap back and forth between the two.
A. M. Homes draws us into the darkly funny, absurd, and touchingly human story of a dysfunctional family whose every member has hit rock bottom and whose lives begin to take strange directions.
The author of Sugar in the Blood uses her own family history, from the seventeenth century through the present, as the pivot for an epic tale of migration, settlement, survival, slavery, and the making of the Americas.
Oprah's Book Club 2.0 pick, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, is a moving family saga starting in the 1920s that traces the lives and struggles of a determined mother and her nine children.
In Louise Erdrich's National Book Award-winning novel, Geraldine Coutts is brutally attacked on a reservation in North Dakota, and her husband and thirteen-year-old son try their best to piece together what exactly happened.
Munro's stories somehow exist on two sides of a road: on one side, there’s light and beauty in simple things; and on the other, darkness is waiting for you just around the bend. They are deceptively simple, yet contain so much in each line.
In Jeanette Walls’ inspiring memoir, she chronicles her upbringing with her nomadic, nonconformist family, and her determined journey toward not only survival, but also success.
Endearing fifteen-year-old Bee hails from an atypical Seattle family. When her genius mom, Bernadette, disappears, Bee sets out on a mythic mission to find her, in Maria Semple's humorous, heartfelt epistolary novel.
Former New York Times restaurant critic and all-around culinary expert, Sam Sifton, has created a Thanksgiving bible. From recipes and drink suggestions to how to set a proper table, this is a must-read for anyone sharing this holiday meal with friends and family.
Author Jami Attenberg talks about the inspiration for her latest novel about a matriarch eating herself to death and the ripple effects on her family.
This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Díaz's latest critically acclaimed collection of short stories, is not an all-encompassing story of the human heart, but rather an intimate account of the relentless disappointments of one man's heart.
In McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he creates a future without hope, in which a father and son journey through a ravished post-apocalyptic America, relying only on their bond and each other for the strength and will to survive.
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