Appearances
by Joanne Greenberg

In its nuanced portrait of a middle-aged suburbanite and his family, Appearances challenges easy assumptions about the nature of kinship and selfhood, of crime and punishment, of appearance and reality. Steven Howe—Boomer, lawyer, family man— has settled into midlife contentment. Then, unexpectedly, Steven finds himself doubly shaken by something that a data search uncovers his father, Alonzo "Lon" Howe, long assumed to have died in 1958. What follows is a series of revelations that shake Steven's perceptions of himself, his family, and his marriage. Unafraid of risking controversy in the pursuit of insight into the human condition, Appearances is Joanne Greenberg's finest, most challenging, and most compassionate novel.

Early praise for Joanne Greenberg's Appearances:

"Joanne Greenberg, one of the great storytellers of our time, has outdone herself in Appearances. Here is a rich, exciting, moving novel of family life—one that explores the complex, mysterious, painful bonds between parents and children, and between past and the present. Joanne Greenberg looks deep into the hearts and lives of her characters to ask hard questions: what, in extreme circumstances, are the sources of healing for our bodies and for our spirits? Appearances is one of the most beautiful novels I have read in years, one guaranteed to open the hearts and widen the vision of readers everywhere."

—Jay Neugeboren, author of Imagining Robert, The Stolen Jew, Open Heart, and other books

A Season of Delight
by Joanne Greenberg

Empty-nester Grace Dowben finds solace in her marriage, in her participation in a small-town community, and in her work volunteering on a fire-and-rescue squad. But when a twenty-something newcomer named Ben joins the squad, Grace finds her life turned upside-down. Soon she must decide how to resolve her love for a man young enough to be her son. Grace's decision lies at the heart of this warm, wonderfully believable novel.

Praise for A Season of Delight

An Intimate History of Exile: The Union City Plays
by Adrián Rodríguez

In his trilogy about a Cuban-American family, playwright Adrián Rodríguez casts an unsparing light on the contemporary immigrant experience. The first play, Cuban Operator, Please, presents the Fernández family through the eyes of twenty-something Abel, who has grown up in New Jersey under the shadow of his parents’ longing for all they left behind in Cuba decades earlier. La Fábrica shifts the spotlight to Abel’s father, Ramón, who, having fled to the United States, now finds himself trapped in an alien culture and a dead-end factory job. Finally, Floating Home returns to Abel’s point of view—the younger generation’s fantasy of recapturing what his family has lost.

"The playwright does an exceptional job of balancing this extremely personal story with the universal elements of family, identity, and mourning." —Arian Blanco

"[A]n exquisite work of theatre…contains riches in its honest and unsentimental depiction of immigrant life." —Martin Denton, The New York Theatre Experience

"…a charming, poignant story.… It is beautifully conceived and written...." —Paula Shulak, Community News of Delaware

By the time the colonists landed on the planet with two suns, they had already divided into the rulers and the ruled. When the new world failed to provide sufficient food, this division erupted into a civil war. Some people fled to the desert; others stayed on the coast and built a city from the hulks of the starships.

Now Espera—one of the desert-dwellers—learns from her wise mother how to make native plants edible and how to train the great flying beasts called yaegers. But when the young woman’s father arrives, asking her to undertake a dangerous quest, Espera overrules her mother and sets off to learn the secrets of the great City Built of Starships.

"Readers will love Espera—hero and adventurer…. Here’s a whole world that needs changing, and this girl has a part in it. Meredith Sue Willis knows how to write a rousing adventure story. I stayed up way past my bedtime—thank goodness I’m too old to have somebody telling me to go to bed."

—Carol Emshwiller, Nebula award winner and author of Carmen Dog