FSG classics

Binx Bolling is a moviegoer who lives for the bright, fleeting moments of celluloid fantasy he experiences at the movies. But real life butts in and soon he is more involved than he would like to be with a beauty who is drifting toward disaster.

Uses the life of a schoolgirl, Sophie, as a backdrop for a discussion of the meaning of life and the history of philosophy.

Fascinated by the world of street gangs and in love with the drug addicted leader of one of them, a teenage girl is caught up in violence, heroin, and death.

Years after Haiti's liberation from French colonial rule, while King Henri Christophe reigns with brutality, and Ti No?l, an elderly slave, practices animal magic with his fellow slave, Macandal.

Francis, an orphan who lives with his great-uncle in Powderhead, Tennessee, is called by God to be a prophet, which is against his will and causes much inner conflict.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Downexplores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest.

Uses the life of a schoolgirl, Sophie, as a backdrop for a discussion of the meaning of life and the history of philosophy.