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An NPR Best Book of 2022“Delectable. . . Huneven treats us to a savory plot that blends spiritual yearnings with earthly pleasures. Forks out!” —Oprah DailyFrom critically acclaimed, award-winning author Michelle Huneven, a sharp and funny novel of a congregational search committee, told as a memoir... Read More about Search: A Novel

“Delectable. . . Huneven treats us to a savory plot that blends spiritual yearnings with earthly pleasures. Forks out!”—Oprah Daily * An NPR Best Book of 2022 From critically acclaimed, award-winning author Michelle Huneven, a sharp and funny novel of a congregational search committee, told as a mem... Read More about Search: A Novel

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDFINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZECHICAGO TRIBUNE FAVORITE FICTION OF THE YEARO, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE TEN TERRIFIC READS OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA KANSAS CITY STAR 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARPatsy MacLemoore, a twen... Read More about Blame: A Novel

Jamesland, the buoyant second novel by Michelle Huneven, critically acclaimed author of Round Rock, is a witty, sophisticated, and deeply humane comedy of unlikely redemption.When thirty-three-year-old Alice Black discovers a deer in her dining room after fighting with her boyfriend, she wonders if ... Read More about Jamesland (Vintage Contemporaries)

The historic, handsome city in the shadow of Los Angeles has been a creative hotbed since the Arroyo Arts & Crafts scene of the early twentieth century. This literary journal gathers short fiction by such Pasadena-area writers as Michelle Huneven ("Blame"), David Ebershoff ("The 19th Wife"), Vic... Read More about Literary Pasadena: The Fiction Edition

In a small town among the citrus groves in the Santa Bernita Valley, so the locals claim, nothing ever goes according to plan. "It's a great place to live, they say, if you like surprises: it's just like life, only different." Certainly a number of Rito's inhabitants--fewer than a hundred in all--ar... Read More about Round Rock (Vintage Contemporaries)