04836cam a2200949 4500 567609026 TxAuBib 20220701120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781619029712 1619029715 B072C51C2K Amazon 8c40af34-2204-4a4e-b376-b0e868972b9e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3605721 OverDrive (Product ID) 675352 675352 675352 TxAuBib Silber, Joan. Improvement [Bridges eBook] : A Novel. Catapult, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1775kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 5521kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. realistic fiction books. Contemporary Romance. American Literature. realistic fiction. literary fiction. Women's Fiction. relationships. Urban Fiction. Coming of age. Inspirational. fiction books. books fiction. Spirituality. urban books. Friendship. Historical. philosophy. Christian. Adventure. americana. Chick Lit. marriage. families. baseball. Literary. Animals. romance. Cooking. culture. Fiction. classic. mystery. Poverty. family. Nature. novels. Modern. sports. school. sport. crime. Death. Drama. grief. Urban. Music. love. cozy. HTML:<b>The national bestseller and <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book about a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them from one of America's most gifted writers of fiction, "our own country's Alice Munro" (<i>The Washington Post</i>).</b><br /> <br /> Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn’t perfect, yet as she visits him throughout his three–month stint at Rikers Island, their bond grows tighter. Kiki, now settled in the East Village after a journey that took her to Turkey and around the world, admires her niece’s spirit but worries that she always picks the wrong man. Little does she know that the otherwise honorable Boyd is pulling Reyna into a cigarette smuggling scheme, across state lines, where he could risk violating probation. When Reyna ultimately decides to remove herself for the sake of her four–year–old child, her small act of resistance sets into motion a tapestry of events that affect the lives of loved ones and strangers around them.<br /> <br /> A novel that examines conviction, connection, and the possibility of generosity in the face of loss, <i>Improvement</i> is as intricately woven together as Kiki’s beloved Turkish rugs, as colorful as the tattoos decorating Reyna’s body, with narrative twists and turns as surprising and unexpected as the lives all around us. The <i>Boston Globe</i> says of Joan Silber: "No other writer can make a few small decisions ripple across the globe, and across time, with more subtlety and power." <i>Improvement</i> is Silber’s most shining achievement yet.<br /> <br /> <b>"Without fuss or flourishes, Joan Silber weaves a remarkably patterned tapestry connecting strangers from around the world to a central tragic car accident. The writing here is funny and down–to–earth, the characters are recognizably fallible, and the message is quietly profound: We are not ever really alone, however lonely we feel." —<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b>. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. National Book Critics Circle Award. PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-29 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8c40af34-2204-4a4e-b376-b0e868972b9e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8c40af34-2204-4a4e-b376-b0e868972b9e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8c40af34-2204-4a4e-b376-b0e868972b9e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)