Product Description: When Playing House appeared in 1973, Publishers Weekly hailed it, “A probing descent into madness that will fascinate the same audience that appreciated I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.” This nationally bestselling story of one woman’s struggle with the lasting effects of a childhood sexual relationship with her brother shocked American readers; it remains a literary work of enduring quality and value...read more

In Kansas for the 1957 summer wheat harvest, two college students live on the farm and relate to the family. A neighboring farm experiences a wheat fire and the students respond with all the neighbors to put it out. The family who owns the farm where they are employed experiences difficulties. The teen age daughter is injured and receives treatment at the hospital where the doctor uncovers sexual abuse. Her father commits suicide. Through it all, the wheat has to be harvested.

Two acclaimed novels chronicling the lives of Zimbabwean women by the African author of Butterfly Burning come together in a volume that includes Without a Name, about a young woman fleeing the war to seek a new life in Harare, and Under the Tongue, about a mute teenager struggling to cope with the pain of incest. Original.

Product Description: This mesmerising novel draws us in to a life that none of us would choose. Uncompromising in confronting our assumptions about choice and responsibility, it takes us deep into the psyche of a young woman unable to escape domestic abuse - first from her loving father, then from a partner who oscillates between protection and vicious physical abuse...read more

Product Description: Book by Gahlinger, Claudia