<div>&ldquo;The truest kind of story: about the inconvenience of love, and the choices people make when they&rsquo;re most afraid&rdquo; (Amanda Stern, author of Little Panic). Sarah Marker, an artist who ekes out a living teaching at a fancy Connecticut high school, hasn&rsquo;t seen her husband in seven years. But now she&rsquo;s received a letter from Philip, and he wants to visit. The two never formally cut ties; they simply drifted apart and into a state of ambivalence&mdash;and now, as much as Sarah would like to see him, she is terrified at what he will do when he discovers that she has a son. Sarah bundles up her child and once again takes flight, in this novel that spans back in forth in time and journeys into the 1980s art scene in New York City&mdash;and ultimately, she must confront the terrible events surrounding Philip&rsquo;s departure, and reconcile her own fractured experience of family, including the successful sister who has long overshadowed her. &ldquo;Powerfully written. . . . From its tense opening chapter to its memorable conclusion, this is a read-in-one-sitting trip.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Compelling . . . A poignant picture of familial and romantic love and their complexities.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal &ldquo;Who can plot the turns and reversals of the heart? Who can follow its illogical loyalties and mysterious obsessions? Who can reconcile its competing claims from lovers and family? Eliza Factor, that&rsquo;s who, in this stunningly assured novel about a pair of sisters&mdash;one a successful artist, the other a famous singer&mdash;and the handsome architect who comes between them. The cover should come with a warning to put your life on hold for a few days, because once you pick it up, you won&rsquo;t be able to do anything else until you finish.&rdquo; &mdash;Bliss Broyard, author of One Drop: My Father&rsquo;s Hidden Life&mdash;A Story of Race and Family Secrets </div>

Love Maps

<div>In an idealistic utopian community in the early twentieth-century West, a father and daughter engage in a battle of wills: &ldquo;Transcendent.&rdquo; &mdash;Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels Set in a remote stretch of desert near the border of West Texas and Mexico at the turn of the twentieth century, this story follows the pursuits of Owen Scraperton as he struggles to establish Pristina, a utopian community based on mercury mining that aims to resolve the great questions of labor and race. As age, love, and experience cause Owen to modify his original vision, his fiercely idealistic daughter Victoria remains true to Pristina&rsquo;s founding principles&mdash;setting them up for a major conflict that captures the imagination of the entire town. The Mercury Fountain combines realistic modern writing with elements from American and Greco-Roman mythology, taking its cue from Mercury, the most slippery and mischievous of gods, who rules over science, commerce, eloquence, and thievery. &ldquo;Eliza Factor&rsquo;s first novel, The Mercury Fountain, explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people. Though the action takes place between 1900 and 1923, the resonances feel alarmingly contemporary . . . Factor counters convention with a sharp sense of character, evocative subplots and the dangerous allure of mercury itself.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;Factor develops her characters in entertaining ways while building a novel of social realism.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

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Love Maps

The Mercury Fountain

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