Sentences with phrase «beautiful debut novel»

This is one of the themes that Nancy Reisman, an award - winning writer of short fiction, explores in her beautiful debut novel The First Desire.
As summer quickly comes to an end, Jessica Brockmole's beautiful debut novel is a perfect way to slow down and enjoy the final days of summer.
From Flannery O'Connor and Rona Jaffe Award winner Lori Ostlund, a deeply moving and beautiful debut novel about a man who leaves his longtime partner in New Mexico for a new life in San Francisco, launching him on a tragicomic road trip and into the mysteries of his own Midwestern childhood.
A beautiful debut novel that contemplates relationships, responsibility, betrayal, and longing.
Sebold's beautiful debut novel is a powerful and unique coming - of - age story.

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Veteran screenwriter Goldsman (an Oscar winner for A Beautiful Mind, and definitely not one for Batman & Robin) has given himself quite a challenge for his directorial debut, taking on Mark Helprin's epic fantasy novel set in an alternative, magic - filled New York City (and spanning the entire 20th century) with a relatively low sub - $ 50 million budget.
A stunning debut novel about an extended Sri Lankan family - a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary immigrant life, by turns darkly funny, sad, poignant, and uproariously beautiful.
A magnificent debut novel, Mary Curran Hackett's Proof of Heaven is a beautiful and unforgettable exploration of the power of love and the monumental questions of life, death, and the afterlife.
Told in a haunting and powerful first - person narration that casts the streets of Washington, D.C., and Addis Ababa through Sepha's eyes, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears is a deeply affecting and unforgettable debut novel about what it means to lose a family and a country - and what it takes to create a new home.
As crushing as it is beautiful, Shobha Rao's debut novel follows two Indian girls through the most hopeless of circumstances, but their enduring friendship burns brightly — endlessly — through it all.
Celona's ravishingly beautiful novel offers a deeply affecting look at the choices we make and what it means to be a family, and it marks the debut of a magnificent new voice in contemporary fiction.
A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel that opens in 1918 Australia - the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds.
Finding Beautiful is her debut novel.
This is Ms. Macy's first book, but it's in a class with other runaway debuts like Laura Hillenbrand's «Seabiscuit» and Katherine Boo's «Behind the Beautiful Forevers»: These nonfiction narratives are more stirring and dramatic than most novels.
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