Ayad Akhtar Hayat Shah was captivated by Mina long before he met her: his mother's beautiful, brilliant, and soulfully devout friend is a family legend. When he learns that Mina...

Tawni O'Dell Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and...

John Green Quentin Jacobsen has always loved Margo from afar. So when she climbs through his window to summon him on an all-night road trip of revenge he cannot help...

Elana Ferrante “Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was uttered under his breath, in the apartment that my...