Teenager Alice lives on the road with her mother, but when her mother is kidnapped, Alice realizes that her grandmother’s dark fairy tales might be based more on reality than fantasy.
Flatiron Books
Every night, Marc Laurent, an American hostage in Pakistan, is visited by a woman he knows as Josephine. They begin telling each other stories and eventually, a father and daughter find their way to understand each other again.
Takes place over a weekend between six adults and three children and explores the most fundamental relationships —marriage, sex, parenthood and friendship — and how too often we don’t appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it’s too late.
The true story of a fashion show that took place in 1973 pitting the top French designers against the unknown upstart American designers. It resulted in a victory for the Americans, but also broke racial barriers as the Americans brought out 10 African American models – the likes of which had never been seen on a French couture runway.