A haunting novel about a family whose lives are shaded by a dream of stardom.

From the polluted swamp of what was once Longfellow's "forest primeval, " comes the happy, singing, all-American Silvenowicz family, comprising m

Richard Sullivan has a problem. His average American family is on the edge of ruin and they don't even realize it. The Sullivans are struggling t

When Clay Spencer is late arriving home on Christmas Eve, the oldest of his eight children becomes involved in unexpected, often dangerous advent

A woman must look after her mother's son when the mother is killed. The child is the product of an extramarital affair, something no one tells hi

Gavin Stuart leaves the carnival to become an aviator in the French Foreign Legion during World War I, while Lylah Stuart is torn when the man sh

The familiar suburban landscape of Updike, Cheever, and Irving gets dazzlingly reinvented in this audacious and funny novel. It's the weekend aft

Chronicles the happiness pursuits of the Eriksons from their 1970s coming-of-age to the near-present day, in a story told from revolving viewpoin

When Michael Gannon, war hero and devout Catholic, dies on the front lawn of their yellow house in California in 1962, his wife Barbara and their