05418cam a2200661 4500 468432963 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781619029712 1619029715 B072C51C2K Amazon 8c40af34-2204-4a4e-b376-b0e868972b9e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3605721 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Silber, Joan. Improvement [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Counterpoint, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1775kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 5521kB. national book critics circle award winner. new york times book review editors choice. washington post notable work of fiction. kirkus reviews best books of the year. wall street journal top fiction. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. pen faulkner award winner. Pen Malamud Award Winner. contemporary fiction. coming of age story. pen faulkner award. newsday best books. mothers and sons. butterfly effect. pen award winner. best book 2017. relationships. new york city. Rikers Island. chaos theory. east village. motherhood. New York. family. Prison. crime. love. HTML:<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER<br /> WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION<br /> WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION<br /> AUTHOR IS THE WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN/MALAMUD AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE SHORT STORY<br /> Named 1 of 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2017 by <i>The Washington Post</i><br /> Named 1 of 10 Top Fiction Titles of 2017 by the <i>Wall Street Journal</i><br /> A <i>Newsday</i> Best Book of 2017<br /> A <i>Kirkus</i> Best Book of 2017<br /> A <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Editor's Choice</b><br /> One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them.<br /> Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet as she visits him throughout his three-month stint at Rikers Island, their bond grows tighter. Kiki, now settled in the East Village after a journey that took her to Turkey and around the world, admires her niece's spirit but worries that she always picks the wrong man. Little does she know that the otherwise honorable Boyd is pulling Reyna into a cigarette smuggling scheme, across state lines, where he could risk violating probation. When Reyna ultimately decides to remove herself for the sake of her four-year-old child, her small act of resistance sets into motion a tapestry of events that affect the lives of loved ones and strangers around them.<br /> A novel that examines conviction, connection, and the possibility of generosity in the face of loss, <i>Improvement</i> is as intricately woven together as Kiki's beloved Turkish rugs, as colorful as the tattoos decorating Reyna's body, with narrative twists and turns as surprising and unexpected as the lives all around us. The <i>Boston Globe</i> says of Joan Silber: "No other writer can make a few small decisions ripple across the globe, and across time, with more subtlety and power." <i>Improvement</i> is Silber's most shining achievement yet.<br /> <b>"Without fuss or flourishes, Joan Silber weaves a remarkably patterned tapestry connecting strangers from around the world to a central tragic car accident. The writing here is funny and down-to-earth, the characters are recognizably fallible, and the message is quietly profound: We are not ever really alone, however lonely we feel." —<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, 1 of 10 top fiction titles of 2017</b><br /> <b>"[I]t feels vital to love Silber's work. . . Now is the moment to appreciate that she is here, in our midst: our country's own Alice Munro. Silber's great theme as a writer is the way in which humans are separated from their intentions, by desires, ideas, time. . . Like Grace Paley and Lucia Berlin, she's a master of talking a story past its easiest meaning; like Munro, a master of the compression and dilation of time, what time and nothing else can reveal to people about themselves." —<i>Washington Post</i></b>. African American Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. National Book Critics Circle Award. PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8c40af34-2204-4a4e-b376-b0e868972b9e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8c40af34-2204-4a4e-b376-b0e868972b9e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8c40af34-2204-4a4e-b376-b0e868972b9e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)