![]() The Tea Girl and Hummingbird Lane, Lisa See In Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson portrays the implications of surviving a real-life epidemic. But, once Mattie escapes the city, she realizes that the fever is everywhere. ![]() When a fever affects the family of young Mattie Cook in 1793, she must leave her beloved Philadelphia with her grandfather. George Saunders makes the death of Lincoln’s 11-year-old son, Willie, into a supernatural take on familial love and the grief that accompanies loss in the Tibetan “bardo,” where ghosts begin a fight over Willie’s very soul. Lincoln in the Bardotells a lesser-known tale of President Lincoln, just after the outset of the Civil War. The novel is a family drama, historical fiction, and romance all rolled into one-and its focus exposes a different side of the historic American experience. ![]() We all know the story of Captain Ahab, but what do we know of his wife? Author Sena Jeter Naslund asks this question in Ahab’s Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer. ![]() Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer, Sena Jeter Naslund ![]()
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