Cover art for “Absolution” owned by MCD Books. Science fiction and fantasy have their fair share of prequel narratives. The Hunger Games has “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” James Dashner’s Maze ...

Living in Western diplomatic privilege with cooks and maids and drivers, the women in the new novel “Absolution” spend their days attending luncheons, lectures and cocktail parties as the Vietnam War ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our ...

Alice McDermott will discuss her newest novel “Absolution” during an April 11 presentation through the New York State Writers Institute. Alice McDermott was a 19-year-old sophomore majoring in English ...

Cover art owned by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It’s appropriate to feel skeptical when first learning the concept behind Alice McDermott’s “Absolution.” The story, written by a white woman, focuses on ...