The two met there for approximately an hour, and then Popenoe accompanied the applicant downstairs. “You know what?” Luff offered to the neatly dressed, middle-age woman who held Santana's fate in her hands. “He's really a unique person ...
Ed Tarkington's hypnotic storytelling, unforgettable characters, and sense of time and place converge brilliantly on the page in this coming-of-age story by a talented new voice in Southern fiction.
A grieving girl.
If that’s true, then Ed Tarkington has hit the trifecta with his soulful first novel . . .
. . This novel may be a murder mystery wrapped in the cloak of Southern Gothic charm but, at its essence, it's a novel about love.
Resentful of her beautiful twin sister's ability to steal the spotlight and the attentions of her friend Adam, sixteen-year-old Aimee finds that her life takes a turn for the worse...
Writing for Harper's and the New Yorker over the last decade, David Samuels has penned a disillusioned love song to the often amusing and sometimes fatal American habit of self-delusion,...