Little Bird of HeavenLittle Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates is a riveting story of love violently lost and found in late 20th century America. In this novel, Oates returns to the Buffalo, New York, region to brilliantly explore the dangerous intersections of romance and eroticism, guilt and obsession, desire and murder. Little Bird of Heaven, a soaring work by the New York Times bestselling author and a nominee for the 2009 Man Booker Prizeone of the worlds most

where ‘essential’ love coexisted with a revolving door of ‘contingent’ affairs—sometimes shared

Set intimately within the social context of Black life

“A buddy road trip novel so funny

he polishes his well-deserved crown

Jacques’s psychic abilities don’t come with an off switch to tune out the world’s noise

The plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the 14th century has been of never-ending interest to both scholarly and general readers

Even with a stellar reputation

to decelerate the aging process

“Like the A-10 aircraft she flew in combat

until an accusation brings a scandal with irreversible consequences for Naomi and her new friends

But the girl they describe bears little resemblance to the damaged woman Mattie knew

High School Drama: From a tense trip to Princeton to a complicated situation with Noel’s dad