Karen Joy Fowler won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, of which judge Manuel Muñoz said in the announcement, “Fowler captures an altogether new dimension of the meaning — and heartbreak — of family dynamics.” Amazon’s best books of April features Peter Matthiessen’s In Paradise as the “spotlight pick” and Ted Thompson’s The Land of Steady Habits as the month’s featured debut. Their other picks of the month are: Astonish Me, Maggie Shipstead Casebook, Mona Simpson Updike, Adam Begley Sous Chef, Michael Gibney Secrecy, Rupert Thomson Essentialism, Greg Mckeown Afterparty, Daryl Gregory Inheritance, Sharon Moalem Listen to the Squawking […]
