Andrea Kempf

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Family Trust

Readers who enjoy complicated novels about family issues will find this engrossing work impossible to put down. [See Prepub Alert, 4/9/18.]
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The Devoted

All lovers of great fiction with complex characters as well as anyone fascinated by narratives about religious cults will want this insightful story.
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We Are Gathered

As the stories of the guests converge, readers are presented with the lives of both successful and unsuccessful but largely unhappy individuals. Weisman's ability to explore these troubled minds creates a multifaceted story of the difficulties people face.
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Roberto to the Dark Tower Came

This page-turning novel, which proceeds to tell the story of Roberto's life day by day, will be enjoyed by readers who like their fiction dark.
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The Lost Family

This exquisitely crafted and compassionate novel offers a lesson in honesty, regardless of how difficult the truth may be. It will offer plenty of discussion for book groups. [See Prepub Alert, 12/1/17.]
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My Mother's Son

In recalling the polio epidemic of the 1950s, the Korean War, Holocaust memories, the relocation of the Boston Braves to Milwaukee, and the election of John F. Kennedy, Hirshberg offers us a glimpse of the past through the eyes of a young boy moving into his teens. This amazing mosaic of fact and fiction will hold readers in its grip from the first to last page.
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American Stranger

Plante, whose novel Family was nominated for the National Book Award, is himself of Franco-American descent. He manages to capture the sense of disconnectedness that Nancy and her male friends experience as each struggles to define his or her identity in this riveting novel of wandering souls.
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Gateway to the Moon

The tales of the auto-da-fé and other graphic descriptions of torture from the Inquisition are gut-wrenching. However, it is the story of the Torres family and its successful maintenance of ancient traditions and, most importantly, Miguel's coming of age that will have readers cheering. [See Prepub Alert, 10/22/17.]
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An Organized Panic

Readers won't be able to put down this engrossing read until the final page. [The manuscript took second place at the 2012 Faulkner-Wisdom competition.—Ed.]
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