Joan Micklin Silver

A woman struggles with her self-image in a house run by a weight-obsessed mother, alongside a younger sister whose eating disorder has tragic ...

The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society.

A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub.

A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.

Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Senor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special, though: When the order is for a ...

Isabelle’s life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectuals she befriends there. Her grandmother remains less ...

Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a ...

The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social ...

A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he’s molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New ...