'There are things even love can't do... If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But even when it's in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn't mean it's no longer love...' Yejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother-in-law wants, and she has trie...(展开全部)

Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage--after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures--Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time--unti...(展开全部)

“Stunning and heart-gripping.” —André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson—“the French Brokeback Mountain” (Elle)—about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald. We drive at high ...(展开全部)

In a single moment, "everything" changes. Seventeenyear- old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she fi nds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck... A sophisticated, layered, and heartachingly beautiful story about the power of family and friends, the choices w...(展开全部)

A critically acclaimed novel that will change the way you look at life, love, and family. In the blink of an eye everything changes. SeventeenA-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall what happened afterwards, watching her own damaged body being taken from the wreck. Little by little she struggles to put together the pieces- to figure out what she has l...(展开全部)

From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the Unit...(展开全部)

Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Fran oise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy when the gamine Xavi re catches his attention. The moody young woman from the countryside pries her way ...(展开全部)

Reasons to Stay Alive is about making the most of your time on earth. In the western world the suicide rate is highest amongst men under the age of 35. Matt Haig could have added to that statistic when, aged 24, he found himself staring at a cliff-edge about to jump off. This is the story of why he didn't, how he recovered and learned to live with anxiety and depression. It's a...(展开全部)

「友誼在於去認識的意願，而非被認識的渴望。」 一部台裔美國人的成長故事，一則獻給逝去好友的真誠告白 「一部優雅而深情的成年記述。」 ──2023年普立茲獎評審委員會評語 ★2023年美國普立茲自傳文學獎．美國書評人協會獎獲獎作品 ★2022年《紐約時報》、《時代》、《滾石》、NPR等各大媒體年度好書 「因著這本書，亞裔文學的發展來到了新的高度。」──《紐約雜誌》 「深層的情感在我閱讀此書時奔流而來。」──湯婷婷，美國文學傑出貢獻獎得主 「寫作最開闊、嚴密、寬恕而溫柔的樣貌。」──王鷗行，艾略特獎得主 ▌「在那年紀，時光飛逝。 你心急地想要有所作為，當事情發生，卻又忘了去記住。 一天像是永遠，一年長若一個地質年代。 我們熬夜，任腦中盤踞狂想出萬事萬物的道理，只是忘了寫下。」 十八歲那年，進入加州大學柏克萊分校就讀的徐華，渴望在大學找到氣味相投的同類。但...(展开全部)