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From the critically acclaimed author of "The Music Lesson" and "Triangle" comes the ingenious, witty, and affecting fictional story of Zip's Candies, a family-run candy factory trying to stay alive after 85 years in the business.

Moving between two worlds and two families, one struggling to survive in the fetid slums of Mumbai, the other grappling to forge a cohesive family despite their diverging cultural identities, this powerful debut novel marks the arrival of a fresh talent.

Graf tells the quirky and funny story of how she marries a man from China whom she barely knows. "The Natural Laws of Good Luck" is a story of acceptance and of love beyond words. It is also a tale of finding renewal at midlife by taking a brave leap into the unknown.

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An astonishing first novel of memory, consciousness, and man's place in the natural world.

Betrayal is Pinter's latest full-length play since the enormous success of No Man's Land. The play begins in 1977, with a meeting between adulterous lovers, Emma and Jerry, two years after their affair has ended. During the nine scenes of the play, we move back in time, through the states of their affair, with the play ending in the house of Emma and Robert, her husband, who is Jerry's best friend.

An extraordinary talent offers a compassionate, evocative, and exquisitely rendered novel of childhood and discovery, innocence and love, betrayal, and its haunting consequences. No one in America writes about love lost and found like Maynard.--Jacquelyn Mitchard.

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