Showing results for "exiles" in Women's Fiction

Key West, 1936. Headstrong, accomplished journalist Martha Gellhorn is confident with words but less so with men when she meets disheveled literary titan Ernest Hemingway in a dive bar. Their friendship - forged over writing, talk, and family dinners - flourishes into something undeniable in Madrid while they’re covering the Spanish Civil War.

Nate, a midlevel money manager on Wall Street, and his girlfriend, Emily, can no longer afford their cramped $5,000-a-month apartment on the Upper East Side. They purchase an idyllic small home in Newport and flee city life with their belongings packed tightly in their Jeep Cherokee, eager to start anew. But within minutes of arriving, the car is stolen and they're left with nothing but the keys to their empty house and a crying son. Over the course of the following three days, as Emily and Nate watch their savings dwindle and tension increase, the secrets they kept from each other in the city emerge - and threaten to destroy their relationship.

Sabahat, a beautiful young Muslim woman, is known in her family for her intelligence, drive, and stubbornness. She believes there is more in store for her life than a good marriage and convinces her parents to let her pursue her education, rare for young Turkish women in the 1920s. But no one - least of all Sabahat herself - expects that in the course of her studies she will fall for a handsome Armenian student named Aram.

The acclaimed author of The Teller of Secrets returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming, story about a young Ghanaian woman’s struggle to make a life in the US, and the challenges she must overcome. Lola is twenty-one, and her life in Senegal couldn’t be better. An aspiring writer and...

Desde la oscuridad del desierto, una mujer rarámuri anuncia a Helena que su hija, desaparecida años atrás, regresará. Por otro lado, esa misma mañana Julia, absorta en una serie de destierros personales, sufre un accidente automovilístico sobre la carretera.