Homes A.M. Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

In un paese di madri narra il rapporto fra Jody Goodman, ventenne alle prime armi nel mondo del cinema, e Claire Roth, affermata psicologa quarantenne, sposata e con due figli, che da ragazzina era rimasta incinta e aveva dato la figlia in adozione. Con il procedere della terapia, Claire comincia a sospettare che Jody sia proprio la figlia da cui si separò vent’anni prima e dirotta l’argomento delle sedute verso invece la famiglia di Jody e in particolare verso le circostanze della sua adozione. Tutti quegli aspetti della vita di Jody che il distacco della professione le permetteva di vedere come innocua o semplice esperienza di vita, improvvisamente la toccano da vicino. In un crescendo di ansia e tensione, Claire perde lucidità e sconfina in un territorio pericoloso, morboso, ossessivo…

Jack is a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal - even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son that he's gay, nothing will ever be normal again.

From the 2013 Orange Prize-winning author of May We Be ForgivenOnly a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide range of visceral responses. Here is the incredible story of an imprisoned pedophile who is drawn into an erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old suburban coed. As the two reveal—and revel in—their obsessive desires, Homes creates in The End of Alice a novel that is part romance, part horror story, at once unnerving and seductive.

On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected.