TUMBLING, Diane McKinney-Whetstone's bestselling first novel, is the heart-warming story of Noon and Herbie, a young couple in Philadelphia during the 1940s and '50s. Unable to consummate their marriage because because of a horrible s...

Fifteen-year-old Neena and her younger sister, Tish, are certain their mother will return, flush with the promise of a new man. But Freeda's disappearance on the cold February morning in 1984 soon stretches from days to months and fr...