In the Lake of the Woods
by Tim O'Brien | 
I'm Not Stiller
by Max Frisch | 
Los Alamos
by Joseph Kanon | 
The Care and Management of Lies
by Jacqueline Winspear | 
Season of Darkness
by Maureen Jennings | 
The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield | 
I Am Watching You
by Teresa Driscoll | 
Plain Truth
by Jodi Picoult | 
Leaving Time
by Jodi Picoult | 
Midwives
by Chris Bohjalian | 
Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem | 
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl | 
Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng | 
The Round House
by Louise Erdrich | 
Pretty Girls Dancing
by Kylie Brant | 
Ordinary Grace
by William Kent Krueger | 
Organized for Murder
by Ritter Ames | 
Drowning Ruth
by Christina Schwarz | 
Brothers and Bones
by James Hankins | 
Freaky Places
by Amanda M. Lee |
A brief, unnerving, and exceptionally hard-hitting novel about time and loss as only the bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of White Noise and Underworld can tell it. In this potent and beautiful novel, the writer The New York Times calls '??prophetic about twenty-first-century America'? looks into the mind and heart of a scholar who was recruited to help the military conceptualize the war. We see Richard Elster at the end of his service. He has retreated to the desert, in search of space and geologic time. There he is joined by a filmmaker and by Elster'??s daughter Jessica'??an '??otherworldly'? woman from New York. The three of them build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event turns detachment into colossal grief, and it is a human mystery that haunts the landscape of desert and mind.