Tagged: Riverhead Books

Feh: A Memoir by Shalom Aus­lan­der

Feh: A Memoir by Shalom Aus­lan­der

From the acclaimed author of Foreskin’s Lament, a memoir of the author’s attempt to escape the biblical story he’d been raised on and his struggle to construct a new story for himself and his...

The Major­i­ty by Eliz­a­beth L. Silver

The Major­i­ty by Eliz­a­beth L. Silver

Inspired by history, a riveting novel of love and friendship, motherhood and ambition, and one woman’s fight to be a Supreme Court justice. Half of the United States is waiting for Justice Sylvia Olin...

How To Love Your Daughter by Hila Blum

How To Love Your Daughter by Hila Blum

Translator: Daniel­la Zamir The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling question: What damage do we do in the blindness of love? Thousands of miles from home,...

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokar­czuk

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokar­czuk

Trans­la­tor: Jen­nifer Croft The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In...

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

Translator: Jennifer Croft The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In...

Moth­er for Dinner by Shalom Aus­lan­der

Moth­er for Dinner by Shalom Aus­lan­der

Seventh Seltzer has done everything he can to break from the past, but in his overbearing, narcissistic mother’s last moments he is drawn back into the life he left behind. At her deathbed, she...

Mother for Dinner by Shalom Auslander

Mother for Dinner by Shalom Auslander

Seventh Seltzer has done everything he can to break from the past, but in his overbearing, narcissistic mother’s last moments he is drawn back into the life he left behind. At her deathbed, she...

The Plateau by Mag­gie Paxson

The Plateau by Mag­gie Paxson

In a remote pocket of Nazi-held France, ordinary people risked their lives to rescue many hundreds of strangers, mostly Jewish children. Was this a fluke of history, or something more? Anthropologist Maggie Paxson, certainties...