Posts Tagged: Tom Perotta

December 5, 2011

Algonquin Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2011 (Part 1)

Algonquin Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2011 (Part 1)

Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow The Love Wife by Gish Jen:  This novel takes us to the heart of the most complicated–and a complicating–American family. It broke my heart and then …

March 11, 2011

<i>The New Yorker</i> librarians: Erin Overbey interviews Jon Michaud about <i>When Tito Loved Clara</i>

The New Yorker librarians: Erin Overbey interviews Jon Michaud about When Tito Loved Clara

    Jon Michaud’s When Tito Loved Clara follows the story of Clara, a Dominican-American wife and mother, as she aspires to a middle-class suburban existence only to be drawn back to …