Things You Should Know
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
A collection of charismatic and humorous stories about the bizarreness of the every-day.
A. M. Homes Books
December 18, 1961
A.M. Homes delves into the intricate complexities of the human psyche and interpersonal relationships, often exploring themes of identity, familial bonds, and the search for meaning. Her style is marked by a piercing insight into human behavior and a unique ability to examine the darker facets of existence with unexpected empathy. The author probes how our roots shape us and how we navigate questions of adoption and belonging. Her works serve as literary investigations into the human condition, challenging readers to reflect.
Music for torching
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Bored with their lives and tired of their marriage, Paul and Elaine turn a family barbecue into a bonfire and watch their dreams go up in smoke. But will burning down their house solve all their problems?
Jack
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Jack is a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal - even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son that he's gay, nothing will ever be normal again.
The end of Alice
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Treads the wafer-thin line between the evil and the everyday and caused a major controversy when it was first released in the US
Harry has always envied his younger brother George - a high-flying TV executive with two kids, a beautiful home and a covetable wife - but Harry also knows that George is a dangerous man with a murderous temper. When an adulterous kiss at Thanksgiving prompts a chain of unexpected events, George finally loses control, and the result is an act so shocking that the brothers are hurled into entirely new lives, ones in which they must both seek absolution. ~from the back cover
In a Country of Mothers
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
For Claire Roth, an established psychotherapist with an adoring husband and children, the lines between friendship and family, between love and compulsion, begin to lose their focus when she meets a new patient.
The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 Presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of America. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family and must take responsibility for his past actions. For his wife and daughter are having their own awakenings self-denying Charlotte enters rehab, and eighteen year old Megan, who has voted for the first time, explores a political future that deviates from her fathers ideology, while delving into deeply buried family secrets.Dark, funny and prescient, The
This Book Will Save Your Life
- 372 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Richard is a middle-aged divorcee trading stock out of his home in Los Angeles. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one, until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world.
The Safety of Objects
- 178 pages
- 7 hours of reading
The Safety of Objects is A.M. Homes' debut collection of short stories, showcasing her trademark humor, perversion, and extraordinary storytelling.
A stunning new collection of short stories from the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction.
