Queen Mab

Queen MabIn this debut novel, a new mothera scholar steeped in fairy lorewrestles with the legacies and madness of motherhood. There is a changeling in this storybut who is it? Madeleine is young for motherhood, a promising grad student in Victorian and modernist literature, twenty three and not long married. Even her mother worries about the timing. But Madeleines ambivalence is pushed aside by Toms elation and her own desire to bring new life into a world

When they arrived

she has confided only in her younger sister

by the bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Our Country Friends

“The first year is when some of us lose our lives

Hank is obsessed with hearts

and laid to rest those anonymous accusations of plagiarism that so tormented him

When Hazel Blum’s father gets a tenured job at a prestigious college

Vera Huntington--a magnetic socialite as mysterious as she is provocative

is profoundly creative: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them and

who’s as gorgeous as he is chronically unreliable

A woman wondering who she really is goes in search of a father she never knew—only to find something far more complicated than she ever expected—in this “stirring narrative about family

But such techniques often end up making things worse