Red Sky at MorningRed Sky at Morning is a minor marvel: it is a novel of paradox, of identity, of an overwhelming YES to life that embraces with wonder what we are pleased to call the human condition. In short, a work of art. Harper Lee Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as a sort of Catcher in the Rye out West, Richard Bradfords Red Sky at Morning is the classic coming of age story set during World War II about the enduring spirit of youth and the values in life

and numerous other honors for his novel The Known World

But when he sees a

Complete with thought-provoking writing prompts and meditations on how to discover who we really are and nourish our self-worth

this stunning US literary debut captures the never-before-told journey of the Baleine Brides: a ship full of young women plucked from a Paris asylum and sent to marry settlers in North America's rough Louisiana Territory

But when Jessica meets the entire unhappy family at the debut show of Blake’s protégé—a reclusive ex-miner producing gloomy canvases in the Black Mountains of southeast Wales—she starts to wonder whether Elinor might be on to something

a place from which no one had ever escaped

captain of the Springboks

including Alice McDermott

She's not going anywhere till he's healed—body and heart

at which point this reader got goosebumps (and again now as I write this)

Under local anesthesia

during the height of India’s erratic monsoon season