Three Indian women find their lives changed, and their reality far from the dreams they had when they were young friends together in this novel by Thrity Umrigar.
Promising themselves a reward of ten pounds of popcorn, Sand and Bernie trundle off to see the remake of the Schwarzenegger film "Total Recall," this time starring Colin Farrell.
A woman who marries a "Buffalo Soldier" in a one-year deal to gain homesteading land faces plainsland difficulties her city life never imagined in this novel of hardship and fulfillment by Ann Weisgarber.
From a quiet village in the Italian Alps to the bustle of New York City, Adriana Trigiani follows two lovers and their lives in her novel, "The Shoemaker's Wife."
Julie Otsuka tells a collective story about the "Picture Brides" who came from Japan and Korea to marry men in the United States in the early 20th Century.
Filled with complex characters with secrets from their pasts, Emily St. John Mandel's third novel, "The Lola Quartet," revolves around the simple, yet compelling, concept that one decision can have lasting echoes far into the future.
