In the hours following a wedding reception, a car filled with stoned, drunk, and sleepy guests accidentally kills a girl on a dark country road. For the next twenty-five years those involved craft their lives in response to this single tragic moment: "When you add us up, you always have to carry the one." Carry the One shows how one life affects another and how those who thrive and those who self-destruct are closer to each other than we'd expect.

Carry the One

Literature & Fiction

Carol Anshaw

Genre Fiction

Fig Tree

Aquamarine

<p>Explores three hypothetical schemas that could have been the life of swimmer Jesse Austin if she had made different choices and had not been haunted by her loss in the Mexico City Olympics</p>

Washington Square Press

Right after the Weather

Atria Books

Nora and Fern's relationship as mother and daughter is a tumble of love and distrust. To Nora, her daughter is an enigma—at the same time wonderful and unfindable. Fern sees her mother as treacherous—for busting up their family to move in with her lover, Jeanne. As their lives become complicated by the arrivals of a skateboarding boyfriend for Fern, a shadowy affair for Nora, a baby in need of a family, and by the failing health of Lucky, their beloved dog, this mother and daughter find their way onto a fresh footing with each other. "With sharp humor and perception" (O: The Oprah Magazine), Lucky in the Corner shows us the way a family reconfigures itself as unexpected changes come its way—and how, no matter what shape it takes, it remains a family.

Lucky in the Corner

Literary

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

Christine Snow, a Chicago therapist, wakes one morning to find her live-in lover gone. At first Chris thinks that Taylor has left in a funk because they fought the night before over a minor flirtation. But too many clues point to another explanation: Either Taylor has left for Morocco and a mysterious woman there, or she has come to harm. Running the emotional gamut from anger to alarm, Christine anxiously tracks the course of Taylor's disappearance, only to discover that her trust in her lover may have been misplaced. Badly shaken, she begins to question her own powers of perception: If she has misread Taylor for so long, perhaps—a therapist's worst fear—she hardly knows her own mind. Bearing Anshaw's trademark style—witty, hip, with sparkling dialogue and irresistible characters—Seven Moves unveils layers of loss, discovery, and personality in a narrative that is forcefully compelling and full of jazzy spirit.

Seven Moves

Contemporary

Virago

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Fischer Verlag

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