44 Poems For You
by Sarah Ruhl ’97 ’01 MFA (Copper Canyon)
Before she became a Tony-nominated playwright and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sarah Ruhl was a poet. And in this moving, witty debut you’ll find intimate meditations on slowness, marriage, loss and longing, miscarriage, and childhood. They span the time before and after Ruhl...
Not Exactly Retired: A Life-Changing Journey on the Road and in the Peace Corps
by David Jarmul ’75 (Peace Corps Writers)
Jarmul first served in the Peace Corps in the late 1970s and was stationed in Nepal, where he met his wife, Champa. As he reached his sixties, Jarmul and his wife both felt a...
The Gringa
by Andrew Altschul ’91 (Melville House)
In his ambitious third novel Altschul (Lady Lazarus, Deus Ex Machina) uses the real-life story of Lori Berenson, an American who spent years in a Peruvian prison after falling in with a revolutionary group, as the template for a rich and sprawling narrative. Here Berenson becomes Lenora Gelb, a...