Books written by Joan Silber
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Fools: Stories
A dazzling new collection of interconnected stories by the National Book Award finalist.
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Household Words: A Novel
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award "Unqualified praise goes to this rarity: an extraordinary novel about ordinary people." —Chicago Tribune The year is 1940, and Rhoda Taber is pregnant with her first child.
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Improvement
The Boston Globe says of Joan Silber 'No other writer can make a few small decisions ripple across the globe, and across time, with more subtlety and power.' Improvement is Silber's most shining achievement yet.
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Secrets of Happiness
A tightly plotted, brilliantly executed account of two families whose lives intersect in unexpected ways.
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Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories
Shortlisted for the National Book Award: "Joan Silber writes with wisdom, humor, grace, and wry intelligence.
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The Size of the World: A Novel
A tale by the National Book Award finalist author of Ideas of Heaven features an intricate web of crossed paths and enlightening journeys in which a sequence of characters imparts key lessons in perspective. Original.
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The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible," asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction.
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Lucky Us
Her richly imagined characters and lovely prose make every page of this book a pleasure. (Margot Livesey, author of Criminals) Lucky Us is a beautiful novel. Elisa and Gabe's story is charged with desperation, tenderness, and compassion.
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In the City
In 1920's Greenwich Village, Pauline Samuels, a recent high school graduate from Newark with bohemian aspirations and romantic dreams, throws herself into, and out of, two disastrous love affairs, and...
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Improvement: A Novel
The writing here is funny and down–to–earth, the characters are recognizably fallible, and the message is quietly profound: We are not ever really alone, however lonely we feel." —The Wall Street Journal
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Secrets of Happiness
"Rich with the complexities of life . . . the stories create a world made fully dimensional through changes of perspective—major characters appear and reappear as part of one or another’s experience and testimony . . .
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The Home Court Advantage
The story that began with The Law of Attraction concludes with lots of love and laughter in The Home Court Advantage.
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Secrets of Happiness: A Novel
When a man discovers his father in New York has long had another, secret, family—a wife and two kids—the interlocking fates of both families lead to surprise loyalties, love triangles, and a reservoir of inner strength—"It would be ...
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Improvement: A Novel
The writing here is funny and down–to–earth, the characters are recognizably fallible, and the message is quietly profound: We are not ever really alone, however lonely we feel." —The Wall Street Journal