McBride takes us on a deep dive into a quirky, colorful, and ramshackle neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African-Americans, on the border of a hostile world of whites, battle each other and sometimes bond while facing grim and life-threatening choices. In a plot at turns intricate, frightening, poignant, and even comic, McBride managed to leave me feeling that he’d just given me a great warm hug.
“A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing.” —Danez Smith, The New York Times Book Review
“We all need—we all deserve—this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post
From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for…
This is a beautiful graphic memoir of a complicated and difficult family that has survived the Holocaust. And its writer-artist, the family’s young daughter, relates her coming of age story in the late 1950s and early ’60s. She proves with this very human story that with skill, sensitivity, and talent, a work of words and drawings together can be a more effective format than words alone.
"A wonderful book about figuring out who we are and who we want to be when we grow up. It's also about being an American-especially a first-generation American." -Roz Chast
This graphic-novel debut from an acclaimed picture book creator is a powerfully moving memoir of the author's experiences with family, religion, and coming of age in the aftermath of World War II, and the childhood struggles and family secrets that shaped her.
It's 1950s New York, and Marisabina Russo is being raised Catholic and attending a Catholic school that she loves-but when she finds out that she's Jewish by blood,…
I mention this particular Michael Connelly novel because it’s the first book to introduce Los Angeles police detective Harry Bosch. Connelly has gone on to write a long series of Harry Bosch mysteries, and this review is really to recommend all of them. His books are filled with totally believable police procedural detail, perfect pitch in describing the pace of Los Angeles life, a fully fleshed out hero, and a surprisingly different collection of plots. If you like detective mysteries, you can’t go wrong with Hieronymus Bosch.
An LAPD homicide detective must choose between justice and vengeance as he teams up with the FBI in this "thrilling" novel filled with mystery and adventure (New York Times Book Review). For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal . . . because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys…
From 1974 to 1995, I wandered the streets of New York City, listening, overhearing, and interviewing New Yorkers. I wrote down their words, sketched them in action, and turned my notes into a weekly comic strip for the city’s trailblazing alternative newsweekly, The Village Voice. “Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies” chronicled the everyday, the extraordinary, and the downright outlandish lives of New Yorkers, capturing their sardonic humor, sexual shenanigans, and exotic obsessions—with every story told entirely in the subjects’ own words. Nearly 300 of these comics are collected in this volume, with a Foreword by Jake Tapper and an Afterword by Jeannette Walls.
