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Gabriele es una actriz que, cuando su carrera toca a su fin, emprende un viaje a la ciudad donde pasó la adolescencia. Su repentina visita pilla algo desprevenidas a dos de sus amigas, que ven en ella un modo de escapatoria a muchos días grises y monótonos. También la actriz podría intuir a través de ellas la vida que podría haber tenido. En vez de eso, el peso de la fama la persigue desde hace cuarenta años y solo una cosa parece evidente: este viaje despierta viejas pasiones y altera las vidas de todos los que visita.

In Brooklyn, New York, in 2005, Ellen Portinari buys a lottery ticket on a whim; not long after, she realizes she’s won a hundred-million-dollar jackpot. With a month to redeem the ticket, she tells no one but her alcoholic brother - a talented composer whose girlfriend has died in a terrorist attack abroad - about her preposterous good luck. As the clock ticks, Ellen caroms from incredulity to giddiness to dread as she tries to reckon with the potential consequences of her win. She becomes unexpectedly involved with a man and boy she’s met at her local gym.

Marie Santora comes from an eccentric Italian family. When she inherits her grandmother’s estate and everyone turns nice and caring, Marie knows it’s time to hit the road to Los Angeles, but not before one final family vacation. In Jamaica, Marie finally meets a woman who could change her life, but will she even talk to Marie after her family tells one too many of Marie’s secrets? Don’t miss this hilarious tale of love and family togetherness run amok.

When journalist Hunter MacIntyre is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s, he realizes that his life is about to change, not to mention that he’s been handed a certain death sentence. Alzheimer’s is a disease affecting the patient’s loved ones as much, if not more, than the patient themselves. In Hunter’s case, that’s his partner Ethan and their five-year-old daughter Amy. How will they react to, and deal with, Hunter’s changing behavior, his memory lapses, and the consequences for their everyday lives?

An entire family comes of age simultaneously in this funny and poignant novel, narrated by a gay 22-year-old son torn between embracing and rejecting his quirky suburban kin. After abandoning a planned suicide, Joshua Royalton returns to his childhood home to unravel the elaborate tales, theories, and neuroses he developed while growing up, including a fictional history of Chinese restaurants, a mortal fear of crows, an obsession with singer Carly Simon, and his parents' addiction to jigsaw puzzles.

Thomas is struggling to support his two younger brothers after the death of their parents. He’s only 22 himself and not ready to be a father. His life seems bleak, but then a job comes looking for him and he meets not one but two different men who might be the one.

Zac was a straight A student, class president, most likely to succeed, but by the age of 25, he was a college drop out. Zac peaked too soon.... He was once the golden child who was ever blindly falling forward. That is until tragedy stops him short. Now, failing out of college, he begrudgingly moves back home, with frazzled over protective parents and an older sister who can no longer stand him. Lost, he finds solace in old acquaintances and new friends that causes ripples of change in all of their lives.

The time has finally come for Brendan and Casper to return to Verona, Indiana. Both have graduated from Indiana University, and Brendan has a teaching and assistant coaching job waiting for him at his old high school. The pair purchase their own place and settle into a comfortable life, until three teenage boys arrive to turn their world upside down. Brendan and Casper find themselves facing life’s greatest challenge - parenthood.

Living together seems an impossible task for four radically different boys, but the tragedies that have touched the lives of each work to bring them together. Family is where you find it.

Polar Vortex is a seductive and tension-filled novel about Priya and Alex, a lesbian couple who left the big city to relocate to a bucolic countryside community. It seemed like a good way to leave their past behind and cement their newish, later-in-life relationship. But there's leaving the past behind - and then there's running away from awkward histories.

Kintsugi ist das japanische Kunsthandwerk, zerbrochenes Porzellan mit Gold zu kitten. Diese Tradition lehrt, dass Schönheit nicht in der Perfektion zu finden ist, sondern im guten Umgang mit den Brüchen und Versehrtheiten. Es ist Wochenende. Wir sind in einem Haus an einem spätwinterlichen See, das Licht ist hart, die Luft ist schneidend kalt, der gefrorene Boden knirscht unter unseren Füßen. Gerade sind Reik und Max angekommen, sie feiern ihre Liebe, die nun zwanzig ist. Eingeladen sind nur ihr ältester Freund Tonio und seine Tochter Pega, so alt wie die Beziehung von Max und Reik.

Winner of the 2017 Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Prize, Like Wings, Your Hands is both a philosophical novel and a coming-of-age story, exploring a mother-son relationship in the context of disability and interdependence....

Brendan and Casper have lived most of their lives on a Christmas tree farm in Verona, Indiana, but when Brendan is offered the position of head football coach at Indiana University, he can’t resist. The couple leaves all that they know behind and moves to Bloomington to begin a new chapter of their lives. Brendan is living his dream, but Casper finds something missing. Soon, he fills the void by becoming the big brother of a troubled youth, and a new chapter of Brendan and Casper’s life begins.

Every summer, Jessie and Emma leave their suburban home in the Central Valley of California and fly north to Baymont. Nestled among Mendocino's golden hills, with ponies to love and endless acres to explore, Baymont should be a child's paradise. But Baymont belongs to Laurel, the girls' birth mother, whose heedless parenting and tainted judgement cast a long shadow over the sisters' summers - and their lives. Caught in a web of allegiances, the girls learn again and again that every loyalty has its price, and that even forgiveness can take unexpected turns.

The last thing Vi Purdet wanted to do was spend Thanksgiving weekend putting a roof on her parents' house with her two asshole brothers. There was a storm headed their way: a rain storm and a shit storm.

It is happening again. A looming sense of doom coupled with an innate need to run plagues him, a rising darkness he cannot escape. Something is coming for Tom. He doesn't know what, but the ominous presence is moving closer every day. Nightmares and voices haunt him until nothing in his life feels safe. Vehement denial and copious amounts of alcohol only delay the approach, but leave Tom with missing time and strained relationships. His respectable family, empathetic girlfriend, and prestigious job - all begin to disintegrate as Tom can only watch, anchorless and increasingly adrift.

Leisa Yeats has always defined herself by the things that are important to her - a good family, a loving relationship, and a meaningful job working with kids. Life is good. But within a span of a few weeks, all of that changes. She’s always known she was adopted, but newly revealed lies and secrets kept by her parents make her question everything she thought she knew about her beginnings. Her 10-year relationship with her partner, Nan, is unexpectedly on shaky ground when she discovers that Nan, too, has kept a secret from her all these years.

On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands. But no one can find a trace of Bette Parsons or Alice McFee. Even the egg seller, Doris Tenpenny, a woman to whom everyone tells their secrets, hears nothing. Ten-year-old Lulu Parsons discovers something, though: a milk-stained note her mother, Bette, left for her father on the kitchen table.

Manhattan, 1962. Frederick Bailey is a quiet, cultured, closeted architect reluctantly drawn into the effort to save Pennsylvania Station from being demolished. But when he meets Curt, a vibrant, immature gay activist more than half his age, he is overtaken by passions he hasn't felt in years, putting everything he cares about - his friends, his family, his career and reputation - at risk. As the elegant old train station is dismantled piece by piece to make way for the crass new Madison Square Garden sports arena, Frederick must undergo a reckoning he has dreaded all his life.

Miriam hasn't left her house in three years and cannot raise her voice above a whisper. But today she has had enough and is finally ready to rejoin the outside world. Meanwhile Ralph has made the mistake of opening a closet door only to discover with a shock that his wife, Sadie, doesn't love him and never has. And so he decides to run away.