“Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a marriage as it is about the troubled history of Mississippi. Steve Yarbrough is a formidably talented novelist, shuttling between the past and present with a grace that feels effortless.” FeelsPastNovelGraceWiseSafeDepthNeighborNovelistsShockUnusualRichnessMississippiPast And PresentEffortless Author:Tom Perrotta
“Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.” HardFallSecretNovelWiseWrittenLoyaltyLustCompromiseImpulseContentmentCaptureElegantContradictoryRestlessness Author:John Dalton
“We become comfortable saying that there's nothing new, and then something like Malarky comes along, which is new and old and different and familiar, but ultimately itself, comfortable in its own skin, wise and smart and crazy-sexy or maybe sexy-crazy-well, you just have to read it to understand. It's a novel that sets its own course, sure and steady, even when it seems like it might be about to go over the edge of the world.” WorldWellsDifferentSeemsMightCoursesNovelWiseCrazyComfortableSmartSkinsEdgesSexyFamiliarSteadyNothing NewOver The EdgeEdge Of The World Author:Laura Lippman
“You could say that this book is ripped from the headlines, but that wouldn't be fair. Bret Anthony Johnston's riveting novel picks up where the tabloids leave off, and takes us places even the best journalism can't go. Remember Me Like This is a wise, moving, and troubling novel about family and identity, and a clear-eyed inventory of loss and redemption.” BookRememberMovingLossNovelClearWiseIdentityPicksFairsRedemptionJournalismHeadlinesRippedTabloidsRemember MeAbout FamilyInventory Author:Tom Perrotta
“The Mapuche are our indigenous people from the south, the Patagonia. They are a vey wise and luminous ancient cavitation, which is completely opposite to where Nazism was headed. In the novel [Wakolda], the theme of racial purity and the Nazi obsession with it was much more developed.” PeopleNovelWiseOppositesSouthAncientObsessionPurityThemeNaziIndigenousLuminousNazismIndigenous PeoplePatagonia Author:Lucia Puenzo
“I see everything visually. It's very visual for me. And so I think, from a plotting standpoint or what have you, there's obviously a certain amount of internal thinking that goes on in a novel (that) you can't do...in a screenplay. But I think, pacing wise, my novels move quickly because (they aren't overly) descriptive.” ThinkingMovingCertainNovelWiseGoes OnAmountVisualsInternalsScreenplaysStandpointPacing Author:Michael Landon, Jr.
“When Steve Wise told me that he intended to argue in court before a judge that an animal could be a "legal person," it seemed like a novel, possibly far-fetched idea, but the more I thought about it, the more I became intrigued.” PersonsIdeasAnimalNovelWiseJudgingCourtArguingIntrigued Author:Chris Hegedus