The bestselling author of Second Nature, Illumination Night and Turtle Moon now offers her most fascinating and tantalizingly accomplished novel yet -- a winning tale that amply...

Carson McCullers was all of twenty-three when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as...

You couldn’t really tell about Mama’s brain just from looking at her, but it was obvious as soon as she spoke. She had a high voice, like a little girl’s, and...