Books like Moon Palace
In 1969, Columbia student Marco Stanley Fogg inherits his late uncle's library, reads and sells it book by book until he is starving in Central Park, and a job as companion to a rich, blind, cantankerous old man named Thomas Effing leads him to his own family's secrets.
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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.
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.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
On his fourteenth birthday in 1930s Harlem, John Grimes struggles with his stern preacher father, the church and his own desires, while the prayers of his family reveal the histories that shaped them.
Dominicana
In 1965 Ana Canción, fifteen, is married off by her family to Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, and taken from the Dominican countryside to an apartment in Washington Heights, so that the rest of them can follow.
The Girls
In the summer of 1969, fourteen-year-old Evie Boyd falls under the spell of an older girl from a ranch commune in Northern California, and decades later, a middle-aged Evie looks back at how close she came to violence.
Songs in Ordinary Time
In the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont, Marie Fermoyle, divorced and raising three children on almost nothing, falls for Omar Duvall, a drifter with a sales pitch and a past.
We the Animals
Three brothers run wild in upstate New York, sons of a Puerto Rican father and a white mother from Brooklyn whose love for each other is as volatile as it is fierce.
Leviathan
After a man blows himself up beside a Wisconsin road, his novelist friend reconstructs how a gentle writer became a bomber of Statue of Liberty replicas.
Song of Solomon
Milkman Dead, the son of the richest Black family in a Michigan town, travels south in search of hidden gold and finds instead the story of his family and of an ancestor who could fly.
Nightcrawling
Kiara Johnson, seventeen, is trying to keep the rent paid on the East Oakland apartment she shares with her older brother when a chance encounter pulls her into a scandal that runs through the city's police department.
City of Night
A young man from El Paso leaves home and drifts through the night cities of America, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New Orleans, hustling on the streets and meeting the people who live there after dark.
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Four sisters from a well-off Dominican family, forced to flee to New York in 1960, grow up American, told backwards from adulthood to their island childhood.