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Explore the choices a woman and her friends made decades earlier at the height of the Vietnam War.

Decades ago in Brooklyn, three girls demonstrated against the Vietnam War, and each followed a distinct path into adulthood. Helen became a violent revolutionary. Val wrote a controversial book, essentially a novelization of Helen's all-too-short but vibrant life. And Olive became an editor and writer, now comfortably settled with her husband, Griff, in New Haven. When Olive is asked to write an essay about Val's book, doing so brings back to ...

Acclaimed author Alice Mattison's new novel explores the hard choices a young woman and her friends made decades earlier at the height of the Vietnam War.Decades ago in Brooklyn, three girls demonstrated against the Vietnam War. Helen became a violent revolutionary and was killed in a protest in 1970. Val wrote a controversial book that was essentially a novelization of Helen's life. And Olive became an editor and writer, now comfortably settl...

A targeted and insightful guide to the stages of writing fiction and memoir without falling into common traps, while wisely navigating the writing life, from an award-winning author and longtime teacher"A book-length master class." -The AtlanticWriting well does not result from following rules and instructions, but from a blend of spontaneity, judgment, and a wise attitude toward the work-neither despairing nor defensive, but clear-eyed, coura...

Animals highlights pregnancy and motherhood from an introspective and blunt voice. Dark humor weaves itself through these unwavering and candid poems.

For years, following an early first marriage, Daisy Andalusia remained single and enjoyed the company of men on her own terms, making the most of her independent life. Now in her fifties, she has remarried and settled into a quieter life in New Haven, Connecticut. She's committed to a job she loves: organizing the clutter of other people's lives. Her business soon leads her to a Yale project studying murders in small cities. While her husband,...

From critically acclaimed author Mattison comes a profoundly moving meditation on love, friendship, and the unforgotten past.

The author of "Men Giving Money, Women Yelling" now offers a moving, deftly structured novel depicting the friendship between two women that begins with the lending of a book--and lasts more than 20 years.

Two young men are swimming naked in an Adirondack lake when they hear a motor, a car appears, and two women get out, one with an orange scarf around her head. It's 1936: New York is suffering through the Great Depression, frightening things are happening in Europe, and Artie Saltzman and Harold Abramovitz, friends since their Brooklyn childhood, are unsure about everything—jobs, lefty politics, women. After this time in the mountains, nothing ...

The author of "The Book Borrower" brings together 13 connected tales that trace a family of women across generations.

In a "memorable novel about love's resilience" ("New York Times Book Review"), the author of "The Book Borrower" tells a universal story of friendship set in McCarthy-era Brooklyn.

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A collection of short stories that revolves around New Haven, Connecticut, finds ordinary people coping with life as they run into and out of one another's lives.