Now hailed as a “proto-feminist classic” (Vulture), Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk’s powerful coming-of-age novel about an ambitious young woman pursuing her artistic dreams in New York City has been a perennial favorite since it was first a bestseller in the 1950s.

Three women, three daughters, and a promise that they’ll each get what they deserve…

Besotted by the women who inflame, entice but usually elude them, this book tracks three men from the 2nd World War into the present century. Dr. Elder is a classicist/polytheist, who, after the Battle of the Bulge, emerges physically intact and searches for a wife and a stress-free life. Freddy, Dr. Elder’s unprepossessing son, aches to live up to his mistaken image of his father. Daniel Shaver, Dr. Elder’s protege and Freddy’s rival, is a bubbling cauldron of ambition, ego, and irrepressible id.

Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat’s “powerful, surprising and terrifying” (Rufi Thorpe) story about a high school student’s traumatic experience and how it irrevocably alters her life, for fans of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Girlhood, and Pen15.