Susan Minot
1) Thirty Girls
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
The long-awaited novel from the best-selling, award-winning author of Evening is a literary tour de force set in war-torn Africa.
Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has traveled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children...
Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has traveled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A superb collection of short fiction--her first in thirty years and spanning many geographies--from the critically acclaimed author of Monkeys, Evening, and Thirty Girls A writer dryly catalogs the myriad reasons she cannot write; an artist bicycles through protests in lower Manhattan and ruminates on an elusive lover; an old woman on her deathbed calls out for a man other than her husband; a hapless fifteen-year-old boy finds himself in sexual peril;...
3) Monkeys
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
When Rosie Paine dies tragically and unexpectedly, her seven children must learn to rely on each other as they begin to cope with a life bereft of the mother who held the family together.--