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During the winter of 1972, a woman spends a single night with a young Chilean poet before he departs New York, leaving her his desk. It is the only time they ev

"[An] elegiac novel . . . achieved through exquisitely chosen sensory details that reverberate with emotional intensity."-Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, The New Y

A luminous and unforgettable first novel by an astonishing new voice in fiction, hailed by Esquire magazine as “one of America’s best young writers.” Sams

Inside the Great House explores the nature of family life and kinship in planter households of the Chesapeake during the eighteenth century—a pivotal era in t