Books like Dear Edward
Twelve-year-old Edward Adler is the only survivor of a plane crash that kills 191 people, his parents and older brother among them, and as he goes to live with his aunt and uncle in New Jersey the novel moves between his new life and the last hours of the flight.
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Walk Two Moons
Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle rides with her grandparents from Ohio to Idaho, retracing her mother's journey, and passes the time telling them the strange story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother has disappeared.
My Friends
Eighteen-year-old Louisa, an artist with nowhere to call home, has always wondered about the tiny figures at the end of a pier in a famous painting, and when it is unexpectedly left in her care she sets out to learn about the summer, twenty-five years earlier, when four teenagers spent their days on that pier.
Hello Beautiful
William Waters, who grew up in a house silent with grief, finds a home with Julia Padavano and her three sisters in Chicago, but when an old darkness returns, it splits the family apart for years.
Black Cake
Byron and Benny Bennett, estranged siblings, come home to California after their mother's death to find she has left them a long voice recording, the story of her life in the Caribbean, and a black cake in the freezer.
Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.
Let the Great World Spin
On the day Philippe Petit walks a wire between the Twin Towers, a dozen New Yorkers' lives intersect in a novel about connection in the vertical city.
The Deep End of the Ocean
Beth Cappadora takes her three children to her high school reunion in a Chicago hotel, turns her back for a moment in the crowded lobby, and her three-year-old son, Ben, is gone.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
An Irish-American girl grows up poor in early-twentieth-century Williamsburg on her mother's stubbornness and her doomed father's charm, and the Brooklyn she walks to school in is its own weather.
Sam
Sam grows up in Beverly, Massachusetts, with a struggling single mother and a charismatic, unreliable father, and finds the one thing she is sure of on climbing walls and rock faces.
The Outsiders
A kid in a poor Oklahoma gang tells the story of the week the rich kids came for them and a boy he loved died, and the week rearranged what he thought he understood about either side.
The Pilot's Wife
Kathryn Lyons is woken before dawn in her New Hampshire farmhouse by the news that her husband Jack's plane has gone down off the coast of Ireland, and as investigators suggest he caused the crash, she begins to find she did not know the man she married.
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Archie Ferguson is born in Newark in 1947 and grows up four times over, in four interleaved lives shaped by different accidents of fate, in Auster's most ambitious novel.