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"An interesting story where people w/ privilege win out over those deemed to be less worthy due to class and ethnic/ racial backgrounds. Very relevant in our society today and shows how easy it is to write people off. I thought the story got bogged..."
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A Good Morning America Buzz Pick * NPR 1A Inaugural Book Club Pick * A 'Must-Read' by USA Today * Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize * Booklist Editor's Choice * CrimeReads' Best of the YearA suspenseful drama about an...
A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK * The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude --a moving tale of female desire and abandon Sitting alone beside the...
Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction, Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a slave and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. As public drama privately experienced,...