Women of America

*America's Women* tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs. Courageous, silly, funny, and hea

**"Susan Choi...proves herself a natural --a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability. I couldn't put American Woman down, and wanted when I finished it to do nothing but read it again." --Joan Didion** A novel of impressive scope and co

**The renowned, genre-bending _Little Big Man_ author, Thomas Berger, returns with perhaps one of his most imaginative alternate realities yet.** "Imagined with such ferocity and glee that we assent to it almost in spite of ourselves...a brilliant accomplishment by one of our best novelists." --_Ne

Four women are trapped in suburbia, bored and eager for their next torrid affair. Roz is left unfulfilled each day when her husband sets off for work. So is Maggie, whose frustration with her own marriage sends her looking for comfort in the beds of other men. And as Elly waits patiently for a hands

**A *NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLER AND ONE OF *KIRKUS REVIEWS'* BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR** It is 1943—the height of the Second World War. With the men away at the front, Berlin has become a city of women. On the surface, Sigrid Schröder is the model German soldier's wife: She goes to work every day