A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century
With alliances shifting quicker than the tides
Most Americans know of Harriet Tubman's legendary life: escaping enslavement in 1849
an instant New York Times bestseller and "a work of art" (The Denver Post)
It's the opening night of The Manor
End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories A Kirkus Reviews Best NonfictionBrilliant, dark stories of women's lives by "a very major talent" (Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times) In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much acclaimed Trespasses, women's lives are etched by poverty material, emotional, sexual but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they've been dealt. A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a derelict housing estate, with blood on her