The Love Letter: A Novel

By Cathleen Schine

The effect on Helen MacFarquhar, a 40-year-old divorcee, of a passionate letter which arrives in her bookstore. It is addressed "Dear Goat" and signed "Ram." As she tries to guess who Ram could be,...

The New Yorkers: A Novel

By Cathleen Schine

She is me

By Cathleen Schine

Fin Lady

By Cathleen Schine

In the Greenwich Village of 1964, eleven-year-old Fin moves in with his glamorous, careless older sister, and it's hard to tell who's raising whom.

The New Yorkers

By Cathleen Schine

To the birdhouse

By Cathleen Schine

They may not mean to but they do

By Cathleen Schine

"Joy Bergman is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would prefer. She won't take their advice, and she won't take an antidepressant. Her marriage to their...

The three Weissmanns of Westport

By Cathleen Schine

Betty Weissman loses her elegant New York apartment when her husband of nearly fifty years divorces her for what he says are irreconcilable differences, but is in actuality another woman. She and...

Alice in bed

By Cathleen Schine

Rameau's Niece

By Cathleen Schine

"This witty companion to Rameau's Nephew, Diderot's light-footed masterpiece, traces the vagaries of a young woman's life as it begins to duplicate the surprising gyrations of an eighteenth-century...