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Dance Lessons. By Aine Greaney. Apr. 2011. 262p. Syracuse Univ., paper, $19.95 (9780815609841). Recently widowed Ellen Boisvert, middle-aged American high-school French teacher, has recently discovered that her late husband, Fintan, [...]

Never the Face. By Ariel Sands. Apr. 2011. 208p. St. Martin's, $24.99 (9780312563868). The unnamed protagonist of this erotic novel is a successful, if lonely, intellectual. When her longtime friend [...]

Pym. By Mat Johnson. Mar. 2011. 332p. Spiegel & Grau, $24 (9780812981582). Chris Jaynes, professor of African American studies, has been denied tenure for his refusal to sit on the [...]

Please Look after Mom. By Kyung-sook Shin. Tr. by Chi-young Kim. Apr. 2011. 256p. Knopf, $24.95 (9780307593917). This novel from widely acclaimed Korean author Shin focuses on motherhood and family [...]

Freud's Blind Spot: Writers on Siblings. Ed. by Elisa Albert. Nov. 2010. 288p. Free Press, paper, $15 (9781439154724). 306.875. This anthology of essays focuses on a subject about which Freud [...]

Twice Born. By Margaret Mazzantini. Tr. by Ann Gagliardi. May 2011. 450p.Viking, $26.95 (9780670022687). Married to the patient Guiliano, Gemma is in her fifties when she receives a call from [...]

Layla. By Celine Keating. June 2011. 242p. Plain View, paper, $18.95 (9781935514770). Layla's mother is dying of cancer, and Layla, whose father passed away long ago, is struggling to accept [...]

The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt. By Jon-Jon Goulian. May 2011. 25p. Random, $25 (9781400068111). 920.009. Goulian's quirky memoir conveys his love for dressing in skirts and five-inch stilettos. [...]

Correspondence: An Adventure in Letters. By N. John Hall. May 2011. 256p. Godine, $26.95 (9781567924121). This epistolary novel examines a tantalizing prospect. Retired bank worker Larry Dickerson has inherited from [...]

The Girl in the Garden. By Kamala Nair. June 2011. 320p. Grand Central, $24.99 (9780446572682). On the verge of marriage, Rakhee Singh must return to India to rectify childhood notions [...]

Games to Play after Dark. By Sarah Gardner Borden. May 2011. 336p.Vintage, paper, $14.95 (9780307740908). Borden's debut examines the complications of love and the way love can erode over time. [...]

The Sisters Brothers. By Patrick deWitt. May 2011. 336p. Ecco, $24.99 (9780062041265). Eli and Charlie Sister's latest mission is to ride down to California to take out prospector Hermann Kermit [...]

The Kitchen Daughter. By Jael McHenry. Apr. 2011. 352p. Gallery, $23 (9781439191699). Ginny Selvaggio's parents have just died in a tragic accident, leaving the young woman with Asperger's syndrome to [...]

A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism. By Peter Mountford. Apr. 2011. 320p. Houghton/Mariner, paper, $15.95 (9780547473352). Working undercover in Bolivia for an aggressive hedge fund---the Calloway Group--Gabriel, a young [...]

* Lydia. By Tim Sandlin. Apr. 2011. 464p. Sourcebooks/Landmark, $24.99 (9781402241819). The latest in Sandlin's GroVont series, this ribald tale centers around Lydia, a fiftysomething rebel freshly released from prison [...]

Seven Years. By Peter Stamm. Tr. by Michael Hoffman. Mar. 2011. 272p. Other, paper, $15.95 (9781590513941). Alex is trapped between two loves in this heartbreaking novel translated from the German. [...]

The Bird Sisters. By Rebecca Rasmussen. Apr. 2011. 304p. Crown, $24 (9780307717962). Born to two star-crossed lovers turned emotionally estranged parents in rural Wisconsin, Twiss and Milly grow up in [...]

Emily and Einstein. By Linda Francis Lee. Mar. 2011. 336p. St. Martin's, $24.99 (9780312382186). Attractive, smart, and charming Sandy Portman lives the high life on the Upper West Side of [...]

Deep Down True. By Juliette Fay. Feb. 2011. 400p. Penguin, paper, $15 (9780143118510). It's been more than a year since Dana Stellgarten's divorce, and things are getting tough. Her 7-year-old, [...]

Open City. By Teju Cole. Feb. 2011. 272p. Random, $25 (9781400068098). Nigerian immigrant Julius, a young graduate student studying psychiatry in New York City, has recently broken up with his [...]

Goya's Head. By Tom Abrams. Dec. 2010. 332p. Livingston, paper, $18.95 (9781604890655); lib. ed., $29 9781604890648). Luke Gatins is a drifter, an unemployed loner living in the slums of Madrid [...]

Juno's Daughters. By Lise Saffran. Jan. 2011. Plume, paper, $15 (9780452296732). Jenny Alexander, mother of two radically different teenage daughters, lives on San Juan Island, a secluded island in the [...]

Losing Graceland. By Micah Nathan. Jan. 2011. 224p. Three Rivers, paper, $14 (9780307591357). Ben Fish has recently graduated with a degree in anthropology, undying love for his high-school-aged ex-girlfriend Jess, [...]

House Divided. By Raul Ramos y Sanchez. Jan. 2011. 320p. Grand Central, paper, $13.99 (9780446507769). In the near future, Manolo Suarez is one of the leaders of the Hispanic rebel [...]

The Virgin Widow. By Anne O'Brien. Nov. 2010.448p. NAL, paper, $15 (9780451231291). Written more for romantic historians than history buffs, this novel focuses on the life of Anne Neville, daughter [...]

Old Border Road. By Susan Froderberg. Dec. 2010. 304p. Little, Brown, $23.99 (9780316098779). Seventeen-year-old Katherine, living in the harsh landscape of southern Arizona, marries Son, the son of a local [...]

Ghosted. By Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall. Oct. 2010. 336p. Soft Skull, paper, $15.95 (9781593762957). Mason Dubisee, who has just turned 30, is struggling to churn out a novel as he battles his [...]

* Under Fishbone Clouds. By Sam Meekings. Dec. 2010.416p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.99 (9780312622794). Foolishly, the Chinese Kitchen God speaks ill of the head deity, the Jade Emperor. For this [...]

Annabel. By Kathleen Winter. Jan. 2011 480p. Black Cat, paper, $14.95 (9780802170828). Wayne, born into the harsh, rural landscape of Labrador, Canada, in 1968, is a hermaphrodite. It is his [...]

Eden. By Yael Hedaya. Tr. by Jessica Cohen. Nov. 2010. 496p. Holt/Metropolitan, $30 (9780805092653). Hedaya presents the stark realities of middle age against the background of the harsh Israeli countryside. [...]

Winter Bloom. By Tara Heavey, Oct. 2010. 384p. Gallery, paper, $15 (9781439177938). In the heart of Dublin, there exists a dilapidated, acre-wide, walled garden that hasn't been touched for years. [...]

Blue Duets. By Kathleen Wall. Sept. 2010. 252p. Brindle & Glass, $19.95 (9781897142448). In Montreal, concert pianist Lila begins to suspect that her difficult, cynical husband, Rob, a history professor, [...]

The Gravedigger. By Rob Magnuson Smith. Oct. 2010. 235p. Univ. of New Orleans, paper, $16.95 (9781608010103). Henry Bale, a middle-aged and roughly handsome English gravedigger, has lived in the small [...]

Children of the Sun. By Max Schaefer. Sept. 2010. 400p. Soft Skull, paper, $15.95 (9781593762971). British author Schaefer's debut novel weaves together the narratives of two young gay men who [...]

The Widower. By Ray Kluun. Tr. by Shaun Whiteside. Sept. 2010. 294p. Pan, paper, $13.95 (9780330454353). Dutch author Kluun follows his European best-selling novel Love Life (2007) with this grief-focused [...]

* Dream of Magda. By Stefan Laszczuk. Sept. 2010. 288p. IPG/Allen & Unwin, paper, $15.95 (9781741755015). Winner of the Australian Vogel Literary Award, Laszczuks second novel (after The Goddamn Bus [...]