Joyce Carol Oates

The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society by one of our most enduringly popular and important writers....

Now 30 years old, Judd looks back through his memories to tell the secrets that eventually ripped apart the fabric of his storybook family....

She was an all-American girl who became a legend of unparalleled stature....

A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they influence the government.... 

As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night, in which she wandered through a field ridden with human skulls and bones. Now an adult, Abby thinks she's outgrown her demons....

My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age 12, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African American boy by her older brothers....

Lonely Iris Courtney learns about life in the small town of Hammond, New York, where blacks and whites live separate lives....

Matt Donaghy has always been a Big Mouth....

Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks....

The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates' vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural Western New York State....