American Literature (Books)

Playing piano is a dangerous life! In Descending Thirds, Nicole Conn turns the rarefied world of classical music into a battlefield of genius, obsession, desire, and fate—where every performance can make a career, destroy a soul, or expose the one truth...

Relatively Painless, a linked story collection follows the Grunman family across four decades — from the 1970s to the early 2000s. It tenderly traces the bruising, and often darkly comic life of a family that loves each other in all the...