Pamela Erens Book order

Voted the twenty-first best novel of all the time by The Guardian, is considered perhaps the greatest Victorian novel of all the time, praised by writers from Emily Dickinson to Virginia Woolf. George Eliot's ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of life in a provincial English community. In the latest volume in Ig's acclaimed Bookmarked series, critically lauded author Pamela Erens talks about how Middlemarch "rescued" as both a distressed college student, as well as during the tumult and anxiety of the tragic and unprecedented events of 2020.

Set in 1970s Chicago, the story follows eleven-year-old Matasha Wax as she navigates the complexities of growing up amidst personal and familial turmoil. Struggling with her best friend's distance, her parents' marital strife, and her own insecurities about her size, Matasha becomes increasingly fixated on the unresolved case of a missing boy. Her world is further upended when her mother suddenly disappears, prompting Matasha to uncover the truth behind the letters from Switzerland. This poignant narrative explores themes of resilience, loneliness, and the challenges of adolescence.

A fierce and fearless novel of complicated pasts, uncertain futures and of the organic, bloody beauty of childbirth and motherhood.

Aviva Rossner and Seung Jung are an unlikely couple at the elite East Coast boarding school and are not shy in flaunting their newly discovered sexuality. Their blossoming relationship is watched with envy and fascination by Bruce and other classmates, who believe their liaison to be one of pure, unadulterated passion and pleasure. But nothing is what it seems, and as Aviva and Seung struggle to understand themselves and each other, things begin to fall apart. Their ultimate descent into shame and betrayal has disastrous consequences beyond their own lives