Alison Lurie

A young couple from New England's Ivy League plunges into a culture clash during a year in Los Angeles....

Virginia Miner, a 50-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about children's folk rhymes....

When a wife reaches her breaking point, and her husband begins an ill-advised affair, civil war breaks out within their family....

Tom McCann, a professor of sociology, and his young assistant, Roger, infiltrate a religious cult group based in New York State, deciding it will make excellent study material....

At the end of his tether, a writer travels to Key West with his wife. She's hoping to cheer him up, but he's hoping for something more fatal....

The author of The War Between the Tates and the Pulitzer prize-winning Foreign Affairs now brings her irresistible wit to the ghost story....

At an artistic Garden of Eden, one writer finds that serpents lurk in every corner....

Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. However, five years in a marriage devoid of passion is enough to propel Emmy, despite her principles, into an affair....

Truth and Consequences is a comedy about love and its disguises, and about identity and change, about small disasters and sudden attractions that can turn even the most stable relationship....

In the midst of the Great Depression, two families spend a holiday weekend together--but while their daughters cement their friendship, their parents tear their marriages apart....