Alice Adams

Almost Perfect (1998)

Caroline's Daughters (2011)

Superior Women (1998)

Rich Rewards (1981)

I think that Alice Adams is quite underrated. Her books are highly readable and have a sort of airy, weightless quality about them, but they have a real sureness and incisiveness about them, too. They make me think of French pastries, quick to eat but hard to make. This book wasn't my favorite of...

Listening to Billie (2011)

The novel deals in a quiet, understated way with the complicated relationships between two sisters, their mother, a daughter, some husbands and lovers, and with the attempts of various characters to make sense out of their aimless lives. I was intrigued but ultimately unsatisfied with this novel....

Return Trips (1986)

A Southern Exposure (1996)

The Last Lovely City: Stories (2011)

Families and Survivors (1991)

To See You Again (1982)

Medicine Men (1997)