Eileen Winter Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to

Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed Homegoing: a novel about a Ghanaian family in the contemporary South

While she spends her time at the lake and the stables

terrifying choice: to walk away from it all

James Joyce’s landmark debut novel traces the awakening of an artist—and the forging of an identity

In spite of it all

Eileen Winter Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up toThe Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic fathers caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the