Maile Meloy, Author . Scribner $23 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1647-0
The 14 stories in Meloy's confident, polished debut tell the tales of many different people—lawyers, ranchers, ex-pats and school girls—often as, in moments of clarity, their understanding of their place in the world poignantly...
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Maile Meloy, Author . Scribner $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4435-0
The consolations of ardent faith, as well as the harsh demands of religious dogma, supply the leitmotifs of this dazzling novel of a Catholic family's life over five decades. Meloy, whose collection of short fiction, Half in Love, earned rave...
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Maile Meloy, Author . Scribner $24 (325p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7766-2
In evanescent scenes distinguished by clean, wry prose, Meloy observes the Santerre family, whom readers met in 2003's Liars and Saints
, from a crafty new angle. The book opens as the deeply Catholic Yvette Santerre frets over her granddaughter,
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Maile Meloy, Author . Riverhead $25.95 (219p) ISBN 978-1-59448-869-6
Meloy (Liars and Saints
) hits some high notes in these stories of people juggling conflicting emotions with varying shades of success. In “The Children,” a man's resolve to leave his wife for his now-grown children's former...
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Maile Meloy. Riverhead, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1652-5
A tropical vacation goes awry in Meloy’s (Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It) ominous, addictive novel. When hardworking, ultraprivileged cousins Liv and Nora decide to whisk their families away on a whirlwind two-week luxury cruise down the coast...
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Maile Meloy, illus. by Ian Schoenherr. Putnam, $16.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-25627-1
When the House Committee on Un-American Activities targets Janie’s television writer parents, the 14-year-old and her family flee from Los Angeles to London. There, Janie meets Benjamin, a “defiant” classmate, and his father, the neighborhood...
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Maile Meloy, illus. by Ian Schoenherr. Putnam, $16.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-16245-9
Set in 1954, this sequel to The Apothecary features the same fun, fast-moving formula as the first book, with charming characters and exciting intrigue mixed with a handful of magic. As this story opens, Janie, now 16, is alone at an elite American...
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Maile Meloy, illus. by Felicita Sala. Putnam, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-984812-69-8
In a straightforward picture book debut by Meloy (the Apothecary series), a red-orange octopus is “happy in his cave,” until a human, portrayed as a pale hand, tricks the cephalopod into occupying a glove and subsequently takes him to “a glass house
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