Browsing Books by Books Like The Promised World
- Shanghai Girls (2009)
- Forced to leave Shanghai when their father sells them to California suitors, sisters May and Pearl s...
- The Paris Wife (2011)
- Follows the life of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, as she navigates 1920s Paris. By the auth...
- Lark and Termite (2009)
- Set against the backdrop of the Korean War in the 1950s, a novel about family, the repercussions of ...
- On Writing (2002)
- The author shares his insights into the craft of writing and offers a humorous perspective on his ow...
- Minding Frankie (2011)
- Agreeing to care for the baby that a terminally ill former girlfriend claims is his, recovering alco...
- Afraid of the Dark (2011)
- Investigating the alibi of a man who faces the death penalty for a terrorist act that killed Chuck M...
- The Roots of the Olive Tree (2012)
- When a geneticist arrives to study their unusual lifespans, the Keller family--five generations of f...
- Tales of Amanda Pig (1994)
- Amanda Pig, her brother Oliver, and their parents share a busy day, working and playing together fro...
- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2013)
- In December 2004 in a rural village in Chechnya, failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized eight-...
- Revolution (2010)
- An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn privat...
- The Passage (2010)
- A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling...
- A Possible Life (2012)
- Five interconnected stories trace the experiences of soldiers whose relationships are shaped by war,...
- I Married You for Happiness (2011)
- The National Book Award-winning author of The News from Paraguay follows the vigil of a woman at the...
