Meg Wolitzer

To be admired by someone we admire - we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes it can also mean entry to a new kind of life, a bigger world. Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement for decades, a figure who...

The moment Joan Castleman decides to leave her husband, they are thirty-five thousand feet about the ocean on a flight to Helsinki. Joan's husband, Joseph, is one of America's preeminent novelists, about to receive a prestigious international award, and Joan, who has spent forty years subjugating her own literary talents to fan he flames of his career, has finally decided to stop. From this gripping opening, Meg Wolitzer flashes back to 1950s Smith...

Twelve-year-olds Duncan Dorfman, April Blunt, and Nate Saviano meet at the Youth Scrabble Tournament where, although each has a different reason for attending and for needing to win, they realize that something more important is at stake than the grand prize.

En Belzhar puedes encontrar lo que perdiste... Si la vida fuera justa, Jam aún viviría en su casa en Nueva Jersey y pasaría el tiempo con Reeve, su encantador novio inglés. Pero de ningún modo estaría en El Granero, un lejano internado para jóvenes "emocionalmente frágiles y sumamente inteligentes". Esta escuela especial es conocida por una selecta y extraordinaria asignatura llamada Temas Especiales de la Literatura, que se centra totalmente

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The story of the couple's youthful passion and ambition interwoven with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later, a lifetime's shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love.