Join us at McNally Jackson Downtown Brooklyn every week for Storytime on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 4pm. We'll read fantastic new books together and kids can reconnect with their favorites. Great for kids 4 to 8, but all ages are welcome. We look forward to seeing you! No RSVP required.
Join us at McNally Jackson Downtown Brooklyn every week for Storytime on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 4pm. We'll read fantastic new books together and kids can reconnect with their favorites. Great for kids 4 to 8, but all ages are welcome. We look forward to seeing you! No RSVP required.
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Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others is a dazzling collection about people confronted with being outsiders--as immigrants, as revolutionaries, and even, often, within their own families.
"Writers with virtually perfect debuts are certainly rare; Zhang joins that short list with a magnificent ten-story collection filled with lost souls aching for connection on both sides of the world." --Booklist starred review
A wickedly insightful, darkly funny novel in which a young woman in the grip of an existential malaise moves to a new city for a fresh start but her attempt at reinvention doesn’t quite go to plan.
“Bea Setton's scathing portrait of expat life traps her protagonist in layers of self-deception. Berlin is an enlightening primer for those tempted to relocate, as well as an astute accounting of a young woman's checkered struggle to change her life.”
—Nell Zink, author of Avalon
Join us at McNally Jackson Rockefeller Center every Saturday at 1:00PM for Storytime. We'll read fantastic new books together and kids can reconnect with their favorites. Great for kids 4 to 8, but all ages are welcome. We look forward to seeing you! No RSVP required.
Join us at McNally Jackson Downtown Brooklyn every week for Storytime on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 4pm. We'll read fantastic new books together and kids can reconnect with their favorites. Great for kids 4 to 8, but all ages are welcome. We look forward to seeing you! No RSVP required.
"Memoirs of serious illness are often good suspense stories, and this one is a page-turner. I read Elizabeth Benedict's Rewriting Illness in a single sitting and finished it infinitely more knowledgeable about what it means to be diagnosed with cancer. Here is someone who’s figured out not only how to think about the unthinkable but how to turn her experience into an honest, gripping, and genuinely humorous story. It’s the kind of inspiring book you want to share with all the important people in your life.” — Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through and The Friend
Join us at McNally Jackson Downtown Brooklyn every week for Storytime on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 4pm. We'll read fantastic new books together and kids can reconnect with their favorites. Great for kids 4 to 8, but all ages are welcome. We look forward to seeing you! No RSVP required.
"The Transit of Venus is one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century. It's difficult to make such a straight, simple claim without wanting to modify or amplify it, but it is. It is greater than any novel by Don DeLillo. It is greater than any work by Alice Munro or Thomas Pynchon. No disrespect to those three indisputable geniuses, or to anyone else whose books have been tagged, however deservedly, with the word masterpiece, but I'm hard-pressed to think of a better novel than Shirley's."
—The Paris Review
Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus has been hailed as one of the greatest of twentieth-century novels. It is the story of two Australian sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, whose relationships and marriages take them from Sydney to London, New York, and Stockholm. Spanning the 1950s to the 1980s, Caroline and Grace’s lives are mingled with political events and upheaval, what Hazzard’s biographer Brigitta Olubas calls “the globalising postwar world.” But at its core, and to its legions of passionate devotees, The Transit of Venus is a book about love—great love, tragic love—and betrayal, truth, beauty, all riven with the perils of knowing and not knowing others. Its dense, poetic, more