{"title":"Kate Christensen","description":"KATE CHRISTENSEN is the author of six previous novels, most recently The Astral. The Great Man won the 2008 PEN\/Faulkner Award. She has published reviews and essays in numerous publications, most recently the New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, O, Elle, and Gilt Taste. She writes an occasional drinks column for The Wall Street Journal called \"With a Twist.\" Her blog can be accessed at: http: \/\/katechristensen.wordpress.com. She lives in Portland, Maine.","products":[{"product_id":"welcome-home-stranger-paperback","title":"Welcome Home, Stranger - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Kate Christensen's new novel, \u003cem\u003eWelcome Home, Stranger\u003c\/em\u003e, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always, lurking in the shadows, a fierce authorial intelligence. What more could you ask?\"--Richard Russo, author of \u003cem\u003eSomebody's Fool\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"To the great literature of going home again we can now add Kate Christensen's superb new novel \u003cem\u003eWelcome Home, Stranger, \u003c\/em\u003e a triumph of intelligence and wit (which will surprise none of her many fans). The prodigal here is a brilliant journalist grieving the loss of a very difficult mother while attempting peace with those she left behind: a resentful sister and an ex-lover who can be neither trusted nor forgotten. 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Divorced and childless in her middle age, she's a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall-until she's summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother's death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen things really fall apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurrounded by a cast of sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreakingly serious characters--an arriviste sister, an alcoholic brother-in-law and, most importantly, the love of her life recently married to the sister's best friend-Rachel must come to terms with her past, the sorrow she has long buried, and the ghost of the mother who, for better and worse, made her the woman she is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLively, witty, and painfully familiar, this sophisticated and emotionally resonant novel from the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Great Man\u003c\/em\u003e holds a mirror up to modern life as it considers the way some of us must carry on now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103684956383,"sku":"9780063299719","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/NUGRwT5m5b9780063299719.webp?v=1781097438"},{"product_id":"the-great-man-paperback","title":"The Great Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Bestseller and Winner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOscar Feldman, the renowned figurative painter, has passed away. As his obituary notes, Oscar is survived by his wife, Abigail, their son, Ethan, and his sister, the well-known abstract painter Maxine Feldman. What the obituary does not note, however, is that Oscar is also survived by his longtime mistress, Teddy St. Cloud, and their daughters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs two biographers interview the women in an attempt to set the record straight, the open secret of his affair reaches a boiling point and a devastating skeleton threatens to come to light. From the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Epicure's Lament\u003c\/i\u003e, a scintillating novel of secrets, love, and legacy in the New York art world.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mischievous...funny, astute...As unexpectedly generous as it is entertaining.... 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