Vintage contemporaries

Imaginary scenario in which Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan survive their ill-fated round-the-world flight, landing on a deserted island they come to know as heaven.

Sophie Caco, a child who was born of rape, leaves Haiti at the age of twelve to join her mother in New York City, where they both battle with the results of sexual abuse.

Photographer Jody, poised on the edge of fame, tries to focus on her career while dealing with her young son Will, her lover, her ex-husband, and an eccentric and perverted gallery owner.

Frank Bascombe, having lost his career and his family, is selling real estate in Haddam, New Jersey, and is settling for a life of mere existence until the events of one Fourth of July weekend shock him into real contact with life.

Thirty-four-year-old Renne Sundheimer, a cello teacher at UCLA, has been deprived of a normal youth due to his early promise as a musical prodigy and his close relationship with his instructor, but he is forced to finally engage with life when he is called to serve on the jury for the trial of a Zen student accused of killing his master, and he takes on a brilliant new pupil.

After living in San Francisco for ten years, Jackson returns home to Louisiana where African-Americans, Cajuns, and whites coexist uneasily. Within this environment he falls in love with Catherine Carmier.

Cudjoe returns to his old neighborhood after a decade of self-imposed exile in search of a boy he saw running from the flames after his West Philadelphia row house was bombed by police.

Adventure featuring a warrior who travels through time to teach a boy orphaned by Mao's cultural revolution.