In 1933, the story opens with eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur, living in the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum for Girls in Oxford, Mississippi. Her existence feels like she's trapped in a Dickens novel. Despite being smart and clever, her age makes her seemingly unadoptable. The Chairlady, Garnett Pittman, is especially cruel towards Meg, who doesn't know what happened to her mother. Faced with back taxes on her home, twenty-four-year-old Birdie Calhoun travels to Oxford to seek fi

In the final installment of Colson Whitehead's Harlem Trilogy series, which began in 1959, the story moves to the 1980s. Ray Carney, owner of Carney Furniture and an occasional fence of stolen goods, is now in his 50s. He no longer has ties to crime and is thrilled to have been named Sterling Furniture's Dealer of the Month, the first Black business owner to achieve this recognition. His children are grown and his wife Elizabeth runs her own travel agency. However, when she i

In 2010, Fiona Winslow, a fifty-year-old historical architect, has faced a challenging year. Her marriage ended in betrayal, and her cherished Uncle Tad, a renowned author, passed away. Fiona decides to return to Wurimbirra in New South Wales, Australia, the family estate where she grew up, which she bought from Tad's son, Jon. Although the house has long been rumored to be haunted, Fiona does not believe in ghosts. She is ready to start over again, beginning with repairing a

Gabriel Allon, the legendary ex-spy and former head of the Israeli Intelligence Agency, has been living in Venice with his family, back working in art restoration. However, he keeps getting pulled back into his former world of international intrigue. Edward Knight, a British billionaire art client, contacts Gabriel when his socialite wife, Alice, disappears during a vacation with friends in Ibiza. At first, this seems to involve a potential hostage negotiation for her release