Approaching his thirty-fifth birthday estranged from his white Boston Brahmin wife and three children, an impoverished African-American construction worker evaluates his inner-city Boston childhood, the abuses he suffered at the hands of his parents, and the disparity between the promise of his... More Info

Five-year-old Eva Farkas is smuggled in a flour sack across the Hungarian border to escape the Nazis. When she returns to politically charged Hungary years later, her relationship with an American teacher deepens as they rescue a child from abuse.  More Info

A brilliant and slyly affecting debut novel about two young Bosnians in the mid-1990s--one who escapes war by way of a theatre troupe, and one who stays to fight.  More Info