At once, A Year of Favor will remind readers of Joan Didion's A Book of Common Prayer and of C.J. Koch's The Year of Living Dangerously. It is a

An off-duty New York City policeman is murdered and the novel follows the investigation through the eyes of Detectives Ryan and Gregory. Was it a

When his aunt and cousins move into his 1950s Bronx home after his uncle goes to jail again, young Anthony Amedeo struggles with sharing a room w

In the 1960s, political tension forces the García family away from Santo Domingo and towards the Bronx. The sisters all hit their strides in Amer

Twin brothers born from a secret love affair between an Indian nun and a British surgeon in Addis Ababa, Marion and Shiva Stone come of age in Et

Traces the fortunes and misfortunes of Herbie Bookbinder, an eleven-year-old who lives in the Bronx.

"A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel -- an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion a

In the Bronx in the early 1960s, fourteen-year-old Maisie and her longtime friend Richie start high school, as each struggles with an abusive par