This is a novel about the persistence of longing in which the twin lives of the title character blur and overlap. Bird puts her child on the bus for school and passes the day with her baby. Interwoven into the passage of the day are phone calls from a promiscuous, unmarried friend, and Bird's recollection of the feral, reckless love she knew as a young woman. It's a day infused with fear and longing, an exploration of the ways the past shapes and...

"The biting literary satire of The Sellout meets the pulsing thrill of Mouth to Mouth in this darkly humorous, surreal debut about a seductive, but problematic bond between an unhappily married therapist and the cancelled K-Pop idol she meets at a Los Angeles H Mart"--

"Marjorie Moore always wants more--and often feels she ends up with less. Forever searching elsewhere, she is consumed with wanting, or in her opinion, needing. Feeling trapped by her town and her family, she escapes through shopping, pill popping, and fantasizing about a possible affair with a friend from high school. Her growing credit card debt "forces" her to sell prescription drugs--which she secures at her receptionist job at the local hospital--to...

Mrs. Dalloway: With a masterful interplay of past and present, Woolf captures a single day in one woman's life. As Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway makes arrangements for a party, she remembers her youth, considers the crushing effects of the Great War, and reexamines the reasons behind her practical marriage. In getting ready to welcome her guests, Clarissa also prepares to face the next stage of her life. Now in her 50s, she begins to consider the changes...

This latest release in the Redemption series reunites readers with the Baxter family. Brooke Baxter's recent return to her faith is an encouragement to her family. But if she faces tremendous loss, can her fledgling faith and her rocky marriage survive?