Thirty years ago Joy Williams's visionary reimagining of The Changeling (Fairy Tale Review) so shocked critics it was virtually banned. Now reborn, this subversive classic flaunts Williams’s preternatural gift for spinning the grotesqueries of human nature into brilliant gold—nothing short of magic.

They f**k you up, your mum and dad... Honor Moore testifies to the thorniness of growing up The Bishop’s Daughter (Norton), confessing that while she was freely eating the fruit of both trees, the former Episcopalian bishop and social activist was struggling to keep his own appetites private. Bob Morris pimps for his 80-year-old pop in Assisted Loving (HarperCollins), a mercilessly funny account of their dual quest for love and companionship. Roxana Robinson's novel Cost (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) artfully portrays a family transformed by the far-reaching consequences of a son’s heroin addiction. In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmer- mystery, Madapple (Knopf), the worlds of science and faith collide.

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