A novel about learning to live in a world stranger than any tabloid headlineThough she’s written dispatches from across the globe—covering the Loch Ness monster, live dinosaurs, and the ever-enigmatic
“Francine Prose is one of a handful of truly indispensable American writers.” —Gary ShteyngartThe Glorious Ones are an unlikely troupe—there’s Armanda, the cheerful dwarf and ex-nun; chattering Columb
Revelations of the mysterious, contradictory heart of everyday lifeIt’s one thing for your husband to leave you for another woman, but how is a person supposed to feel when the man of her dreams aband
Francine Lazarus survived WWII in Belgium hidden with strangers, isolated from her family, and moved from place to place. She witnessed murder and was often injured herself. With her father murdered i
In seventeenth-century Poland, a rabbi takes on the education of a kingThe Polish monarch has outlawed a portion of the Jewish funeral rite, and none of the community’s lawyers, judges, or scholars wi
In June 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white- checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two y
What terrible secret has torn Jessica and Elizabeth apart?Ten years after Sweet Valley High, the Wakefield twins have had a falling out of epic proportions. When Jessica commits a complete and utter b
In Gluttony, Francine Prose serves up a marvelous banquet of witty and engaging observations on this most delicious of deadly sins. She traces how our notions of gluttony have evolved along with our
Francine Prose's life of Michelangelo Merisi (da Caravaggio) evokes the genius of this incomparable artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio's use of ordinary people, realisti
