Brotherless Night

Brotherless NightNew York Times Book Review Editors Choice A courageous young Sri Lankan woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor in this heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war (Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half). This book, a careful, vivid exploration of whats lost within a community when life and thought collapse toward binary conflict, rang softly for me as a novel for our own country in

in a malign parody of the White City

a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom

and precociously talented sixteen-year-old who loves to write stories

It absolutely satisfies

things are less perfect than they appear

Beatriz only knows two things for certain: Something is wrong with the hacienda

he’s also been leaving secret messages for Jane

Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys by car and train and their new lives in colonies in the New World

Samuel will have to embark on his own journey

But I can't risk losing this job - not if I want to keep my darkest secret safe

Ken is gone

What if he could show the queen of romance herself falling head-over-heels for all the world to see