The story of a teenage tennis star in a small town in northern California. She is Rosie, 13, and she has problems. Her mother is a recovering alcoholic still beset by grief over the early death of her first husband, Rosie's tennis partner is experimenting with sex and Rosie is attracted to a middle-aged man.

The author uses grim observation to reveal the stigma that haunted her father's life, as well as the alienation and pain between father and daughter due to class restrictions. This father's biography is also the story of an intellectual's daughter's betrayal -- betrayal of her parents, her upbringing, split between affection and shame, between belonging and alienation. 在通过教师资格考试两个月后父亲去世了，安妮·埃尔诺以此为契机，讲述了一个男人的一生。他出生于世纪之交，不得不早早离开学校，先是当农民，然后在工厂做工，后来成为诺曼底一家小杂货店的店主，直到1967年去世。他自我克制，勤奋工作，谨言慎行，努力维持着一个男人在社会中的位置，却始终无法摆脱对滑落回下层社会的恐惧。...

Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after day. Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family might have some financial security and he some redemption, Grant journeys back in time. He had once been the savior of the Union, the general to whom Lee surrendered at Appomattox, a twice-elected president who fought for the civil...

"Ten years ago, Theodora 'Teddy' Angstrom's older sister Angie disappeared. Her case remains unsolved. Now--on the anniversary of Angie's disappearance--Teddy's father Mark has killed himself. Unbeknownst to Mark's family, he had been actively investigating conspiracy theories sourced from a Reddit community of true crime fans fixated on Angie, and Teddy soon finds herself falling down that same rabbit hole. After all, if hope dies last, Angie could...

"For centuries, the Everlys have seen their best and brightest disappear, taken as punishment for a crime no one remembers, for a purpose no one understands. Their tormentor, a woman named Penelope, never ages, never grows sick - and never forgives a debt. Violet Everly was a child when her mother left on a stormy night, determined to break the curse. When Marianne never returns, Penelope issues an ultimatum: Violet has ten years to find her mother,...