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Four college friends make their way in New York, a lawyer, an actor, an architect and an artist, over decades in which one of them, Jude, carries a past of abuse that shapes all their lives.
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In Five Years
Dannie Kohan, a Manhattan lawyer who plans everything, gets the job and the proposal she wanted on the same day, then falls asleep and wakes up five years later in a different apartment with a different man.
The Great Believers
In 1980s Chicago, art gallery director Yale Tishman watches the AIDS epidemic take his friends, and in 2015 Fiona, the sister of one of them, searches Paris for her estranged daughter.
They Both Die at the End
In a New York where a service called Death-Cast phones people on the day they will die, Mateo and Rufus, two teenagers who get the call just after midnight, meet through an app called Last Friend and spend their last day together.
Another Country
After the suicide of Rufus Scott, a Black jazz drummer, his friends in late-1950s New York, Black and white, gay and straight, try to love one another across every line America draws.
To Paradise
Three interconnected novellas spanning 1893, 1993, and 2093 New York, each reimagining a version of paradise and the human need to construct utopia.
Dancer from the Dance
Malone, a handsome young lawyer who walks away from his career, and Sutherland, a witty queen, drift through the discos of Manhattan and the summer houses of Fire Island in the years after Stonewall, as told by a friend who knew them.
Stone Butch Blues
Jess Goldberg, a working-class Jewish child in 1950s Buffalo who doesn't fit as a girl, comes of age as a butch in the gay bars and factories of the 1960s, through police raids and union fights.
The Goldfinch
A boy survives a childhood trauma that chains him to a stolen painting, dragging him through decades of grief, art forgery, and self-destruction.
Bridge of Sighs
Lou Lynch, sixty, who has spent his whole life in the upstate New York town of Thomaston running his family's corner stores, writes his life story as he and his wife plan a trip to Venice to see his boyhood friend Bobby Marconi, now a famous painter.
Bodies of Light
Maggie Sullivan, taken into care as a small child in Melbourne, moves through foster homes and institutions into an adult life lived under other names.
Housemates
Leah, a writer, and Bernie, a photographer, meet through a Philadelphia housemate ad, and when Bernie's old professor leaves her a complicated inheritance the two set out across rural Pennsylvania to make a book of words and pictures.
Tell Me Everything
In Crosby, Maine, the lawyer Bob Burgess takes on the case of a lonely man suspected of killing his mother, while his friend, the writer Lucy Barton, visits the elderly Olive Kitteridge, who has stories she wants to tell.