Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success …
Uncle Ho is a Vietnamese orphan, born among the bombings and terrors of war. Amy's grandmother says that everyone needs to know the story of their life, even if it has to be invented, but the warla…
"Dad had asked me to give him a hand, and that's exactly what I was doing. I was fast becoming part of the fourteen-cent chopped meat special—which, I'm told, was not a big seller for the rest of…
Senna. She is the reason David, Christopher, April, and Jalil even know about Everworld. She is the one who they've been chasing all over this strange parallel world to get some answers. To show th…
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Mel…