Roxana Robinson

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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1988
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Books in Order: 10 titles

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  • Leaving

    “Wondrous.… This insightful, complex story about a late-in-life romance is unforgettable.” -- Joan Frank, The Washington Post What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again?“I never thought I’d see you here,” Sarah says. T...

  • Dawson's Fall

    A cinematic Reconstruction-era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoning In Dawson’s Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson’s great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Char...

  • Sparta

    Conrad Farrell does not come from a military family, but as a classics major at Williams College, he has encountered the powerful appeal of the Marine Corps ethic: Semper Fidelis comes straight from Sparta, a society where every citizen doubled as a ...

  • Cost

    When Julia Lambert, an art professor, settles into her idyllic Maine house for the summer, she plans to spend the time tending her fragile relationships with her father, a repressive neurosurgeon, and her gentle mother, who is descending into Alzheim...

  • A Perfect Stranger: And Other Stories

    In Roxana Robinson’s lucid and elegant prose, her characters’ inner worlds open up to us, revealing private emotional cores that are familiar in their needs, their secrets, and their longings. These people tell us the truth"not only about thems...

  • Sweetwater

    In this brilliant, luminous novel, one of our finest realist writers gives us a story of surpassing depth and emotional power. Acclaimed for her lucid and compassionate exploration of the American family, Roxana Robinson sets her new work on familiar...

  • This Is My Daughter

    When Peter and Emma, both refugees from failed first marriages, decide to create a new life together, they do so with an optimistic commitment to creating a union -- and forging a new family from two existing ones -- bonded by love and trust. Their y...

  • Asking for Love

    Short stories of upper-class domestic life by an award-winning literary talent: "Asking for Love delighted me no end" (Alice Munro).  Whether it's a woman who must accept the reality of her son growing up, or a daughter becoming disillusione...

  • A Glimpse of Scarlet: And Other Stories

    A New York Times Notable Book: Fourteen exquisitely crafted tales of love, betrayal, loss, and renewal among the upper class.   Acclaimed author Roxana Robinson's collection runs the gamut of emotion, with characters facing shifting ...



  • Summer Light

    Roxana Robinson’s great gift for the telling detail and strong sense of the emotional shoals lurking just beneath even the calmest surface have inspired comparisons to literary greats like John Cheever, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. In her first ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Roxana Robinson has published 10 books.

Roxana Robinson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Leaving, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Roxana Robinson, Summer Light, was published in July 1988.

No. Roxana Robinson does not write books in series.
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