The Corrections (2001)
What appears as a typical Midwestern family is anything but as preparations are made for an ideal family holiday. Alfred, the father is losing his fight to control Parkinson's disease and dementia. His wife, Enid is no longer in control of her household and feels her choices slipping away. Their three grown children are struggling with their own lives. But for this Christmas, Enid is determined to bring them together for the perfect family holiday.
The Discomfort Zone: a Personal History (2006)
The author describes growing up in a family of all boys in Webster Groves, Missouri, reflecting on such topics as the dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship, his role as the school prankster, his marriage, and the life lessons he has learned from birds.
Freedom (2010)
The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalist Patty and Walter Berglund come into questions when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.
How to Be Alone: Essays (2002)
The author presents his 1996 work, 'The Harper's Essay', offering additional writings that consider a central theme of the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the increasing persistence of loneliness in postmodern American.
Strong Motion (1992)
Louis Holland falls in love with a seismologist who discovers that recent Boston earthquakes had human causes, in a novel that deals with such issues as environmental pollution, religious fundamentalism, abortion, and the threat of the apocalypse.
The Twenty Seventh City (1988)
S. Jammu, a young, ambitious Indian woman, is sworn in as police chief of St. Louis where that acts of privates citizens are monitored and the actions of Martin Probst and his family threaten to destroy her plan.
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