Joan Silber

• Sep-2025
• / General Fiction
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A rich and nuanced story beginning with a moment of fear and abandonment that will reverberate across decades and change the course of many lives, by a beloved PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Awardâ€"winning authorIn the gritty East Vil...

• May-2021
• / Women's Fiction
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A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR When a man discovers his father in New York has long had another, secret, family -- a wife and two kids -- the interlocking fates of both families lead to surprise loyalties, love triangles, and a reservoi...

• Nov-2017
• / Literary
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The national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book about a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them from one of America's most gifted writ...

• May-2013
• / Literary
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A dazzling new collection of interconnected stories by the National Book Award finalist. When is it wise to be a fool for something? What makes people want to be better than they are? From New York to India to Paris, from the Catholic Worker movem...

• Jun-2008
• / General Fiction
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Love and family loyalty meet up with the allure of far-off vistas in elegant new fiction by an acclaimed novelist. A richly imagined novel--set in wartime Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, Sicily, and contemporary America--about men and women whose jolti...

• Nov-2005
• / General Fiction
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Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award "Unqualified praise goes to this rarity: an extraordinary novel about ordinary people." -- Chicago TribuneThe year is 1940, and Rhoda Taber is pregnant with her first child. Satisfied with her comfortable house...

• Apr-2004
• / General Fiction
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Shortlisted for the National Book Award: "Joan Silber writes with wisdom, humor, grace, and wry intelligence. Her characters bear welcome news of how we will survive." -- Andrea Barrett Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, these stories are abo...

• Oct-2001
• / General Fiction
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"A love story of our time." -- Ha Jin, author of The Boat Rocker Once upon a very recent time in New York City, there was a couple, two ordinary single people who met the way city people meet. Even though mismatched, they fell in love. And after som...

• May-2000
• / General Fiction
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Joan Silber's third book, In My Other Life, is grounded in New York, and each story focuses on the Great Divide—the surprising reversal that separates an old life from the new. Recovering from the glories of bad habits in their twenties, Silber'...

• Apr-1987
• / General Fiction
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The rediscovered second novel from National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer Joan Silber -- a wry, exquisitely told story of self-invention in 1920s New YorkLike all young people who move to Manhattan from elsewhere, Pauline sees her arrival ...