Confusion

Linked stories follow two half-sisters’ lineages across centuries of African and American history.

Four generations of a Korean family navigate life under Japanese rule and in Japan.

The ‘fool’ Claudius narrates the murderous intrigue of Rome’s first emperors.

An evangelical family arrives in the Congo on the eve of independence—told through the daughters’ voices.

The plague, a marriage, and the death of Shakespeare’s son—told with intimate, luminous focus.

Five Russian families move through court, love, and the Napoleonic invasion as 1805 becomes Borodino and Moscow burns. Tolstoy’s epic is Napoleonic historical fiction on a national scale—ballrooms and battlefields, Pierre and Natasha, and the question of who makes history.