"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...

"From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a shocking and tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a state of deep hibernation over the course of a year on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her...

Sixteen-year-old Haley must deal with unwanted advances from her mother's new boyfriend.

A boy enjoys living quietly by himself at The End of the World until Mr. Constantine Shimmer, "Professional Visionary," builds an inn and an amusement park, demanding that tourists come and have "Fun Without End!"

In 1948, a woman in a small Connecticut community finds herself at the center of a complicated love triangle while she anxiously awaits word about her husband, a soldier who has gone missing in France.

Jake and a woman known only as The Girlfriend are taking a long drive to meet his parents at their secluded farm. But when Jake takes a sudden detour, leaving The Girlfriend stranded at a deserted high school, the story transforms into a twisted combination of the darkest unease, psychological frailty, and a look into the limitations of solitude.

A girl describes the hideaway in her closet where she goes when she wants to spend time by herself.

Todas las mañanas de camino al colegio, Emily ve a un señor mayor comiendo solo en un cafetín. Pero un día, el señor no llega. El día siguiente, Emily se pone muy contenta cuando lo vuelve a ver en el mismo lugar de siempre. Cuando Emily le pregunta al señor sobre su ausencia del día anterior, el señor se presenta y empieza a compartir con Emily algunos de sus mejores recuerdos, recuerdos que no son para nada solitarios ni tristes.

A girl describes the hideaway in her closet where she goes when she wants to spend time by herself.