Two years and 500,000 hardcover sales later, Alison Espach’s novel comes out in paperback this week. It’s a book she didn’t want to write. By Elisabeth Egan Our columnist on the month’s best new books ...

Mother-daughter relationships unfurl over a weekly mahjong game in San Francisco. This postmodern novel is strung together as a series of short stories about four Chinese mothers and their US-born ...

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