Tag Archives: novel
The Heirloom
The Heirloom (G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Random House, 2024) is a new novel written by 2005 Boston College graduate Jessie Rosen. A marriage proposal with an heirloom engagement ring sets the novel’s action in motion. While Shea Anderson says yes to … Continue reading
Accolades for ‘Kantika’
Professor of English Elizabeth Graver’s critically acclaimed novel, Kantika, is winner of a National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardic Culture. Kantika was inspired by Graver’s grandmother, who was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul and … Continue reading
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Tagged English Department, historical fiction, Jewish history, novel, novelist
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Is Hemingway her father?
The Wildest Sun (Dutton/Penguin Random House, 2023), a new novel from bestselling author Asha Lemmie, follows the story of Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, who embarks on a journey to find the father she has … Continue reading
A father and son above the fire
Above the Fire (Blackstone Publishing, 2023), the debut novel from Boston College Law School graduate Michael O’Donnell, tells the story of Doug, a widower, and his 7-year-old son, Tim, who find themselves tested by nature and the unknown in an unexpected … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston College Law School, debut, father, nature, novel
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American Roulette
Eight authors have collaborated on a new novel that tells a story about gun violence and its aftermath in a unique way. American Roulette (Milford House/Sunbury Press, 2023) opens on one unremarkable day in an average U.S. town where a … Continue reading
Mystery on Cape Cod
Boston College graduate Ted (T.M.) Murphy, writing under the pen name Declan Rush, has published a new novel set on Cape Cod. In the suspense thriller Macabre Trophies (Dark Waters Books, 2023), J.T. O’Rourke’s life has entered another downward spiral, … Continue reading
Murder runs in the family
Bestselling author James Patterson and Boston College graduate Mike Lupica, an acclaimed sports journalist and bestselling author, have teamed to write The House of Wolves (Little, Brown and Company, 2023). After her father’s murder, Jenny Wolf is left in charge … Continue reading
Debut novel from Sean Smith
Boston College Chronicle editor Sean Smith has written for a living for the better part of four decades, but this summer he has published his first work of fiction, Transformation Summer. Smith’s debut novel focuses on 16-year-old Seth, who reluctantly … Continue reading
‘Kantika’ by Elizabeth Graver
Kantika, the latest novel by Boston College Professor of English Elizabeth Graver, is a multi-generational saga of one family’s displacement across four different countries. Kantika is a genre-defying mix of personal family history and fiction, drawn from interviews Graver conducted … Continue reading
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Tagged English Department, family saga, Jewish, novel
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The Half of It
Bestselling author Juliette Fay, a graduate of Boston College, has written a new novel about settling the past, rekindling lost friendships, and discovering love when it’s least expected. The Half of It (William Morrow Paperbacks, 2023) tells the story of … Continue reading
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