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Let us be your guides to the year's buzziest fiction. These are the year's top picks from readers, reviewers & awards groups. Chicago Public Library's Must- Read Books of 2024: Fiction

This novel offers a rhapsodic look at late-in-life love that considers an extra element: What happens if your adult daughters do not approve? When past-middle-age and just divorced Sarah reconnects with her college love, Warren, who’s still married, sparks fly, and they tumble back into romance. The...

Read "9 New Books We Recommend This Week" at The New York Times.

Click here to read an excerpt from Leaving at "Lithub."

Somehow balancing operatic intensity with deeply intelligent emotional realism (particularly with regard to the role of adult children in their parents’ lives), Robinson’s novel reinvents our understanding of the possibilities, and limits, of midlife. Sorry, we're not going to talk about the ending....

Marion Winik and Lisa Morgan review Leaving on The Weekly Reader podcast.

Joan Frank writes at The Washington Post: Roxana Robinson’s stunning new novel, “Leaving,” cost me some sleep, and continues to reverberate. A study of the complex joy and pain of late-life love, it is a tour de force and arguably her finest work yet. The curtain opens on intermission at a New Yor...

On May 9th I received the Authors Guild Award for Distinguished Service to the Literary Community. More information at the Authors Guild Website.

Virginia Woolf radically transformed the novel of manners, a form defined by a domestic setting, limited emotional range, and the centrality of social codes. Woolf expanded this to include the whole range of human experience, partly through the use of shifting interior voices who meditate on art, ma...