American fiction – Page 3

Until It Was Gone by Dave Seaburn

Another story full of humour and humanity about marriage, family dynamics, the wounds of past arguments and moving forward.

A disillusioned medical student encounters an older patient who takes him to task over his attitude, wanting to alter it for the better

A book of boys and baseball which rolls along at a fair old pace, with humour, cracking dialogue and scrapes and incidents galore

A book which reveals itself gradually, uncoiling before us while being told through the eyes of our narrator, Cadence, but can we trust her?

A book of family and the tensions that create the ebb and flow, to and fro, between its members, told from different viewpoints

If you like murder mysteries that are well-plotted, revealed by degrees and involve eccentric and lively characters, Nero Wolfe is for you!

A book which is ostensibly about family but has a deeper discussion at its core involving humans and the way we treat other animals

A book for our times, Mad Honey is a story of people, divisions, assumptions and wrong perceptions, with a murder trial at the centre of it

Suzie suffers from schizophrenia and when this starts to drag her life into darker realms, we go with Landt’s narrative to the Mole People

Why doesn’t Lena want to go home to Possett, Alabama? A book which explores the past, growing up, rites of passage and the ties that bind