The Same Sweet Girls
by Cassandra King | 
The Last Time I Saw You
by Elizabeth Berg | 
Beaches
by Iris Rainer Dart | 
Chances Are...
by Richard Russo |
Best Friends
by Martha Moody | 
The House on Fortune Street
by Margot Livesey | 
Friday Nights
by Joanna Trollope | 
The Book Club
by Mary Alice Monroe | 
The Myth of You & Me
by Leah Stewart | 
The Three Miss Margarets
by Louise Shaffer | 
The Saving Graces
by Patricia Gaffney |
The Last Girls
by Lee Smith | 
Friendship Cake
by Lynne Hinton | 
The Other
by David Guterson | 
Islands
by Anne Rivers Siddons | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo |
Anne of Windy Poplars
by Lucy Maud Montgomery | 
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes | 
Out Stealing Horses
by Per Petterson |
Hailed as a "tour de force" (Los Angeles Times) and a "surprisingly sweet story" (Entertainment Weekly), Kitty Fitzgerald's Pigtopia is a spellbinding debut, featuring one of the most singular characters to come along since Christopher Boone in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.Society has rejected Jack Plum. Born with a disfigurement, he is labeled either a monster or an imbecile by his abusive mother and thoughtless neighbors. But Jack has created a haven, his "pigtopia," a shelter where Jack hides from the world with his beloved pet pigs. Then Jack meets Holly Lock, a sensitive young teenager who lives nearby, and offers her a piglet. Together they forge an unlikely and beautiful friendship, until society and fate intervene and Jack's secret world is threatened by forces beyond his control.