Audrey Schulman
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
One of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of fiction in 2018Stage four. Surgery. Recovering. While those are the simple words that once described Dr. Francine Burk's situation, the reality is much more complex. Her new reality is bacon rinds for breakfast and feeling unduly thrilled by her increasing ability to walk across a room without assistance. And its being offered a placement at a prestigious research institute where she can put to good...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
In 1899 Jeremy, a young engineer, leaves a small town in Maine to oversee the construction of a railroad across East Africa. In charge of hundreds of Indian laborers, he soon finds himself the reluctant hunter of two lions that are killing his men in almost nightly attacks on their camp. Plagued by fear, wracked with malaria and alienated by a secret he can tell no one, he takes increasing solace in the company of the African who helps him hunt. In...