Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction

Overview "After a traumatic head injury, Dylan Hendler Waxman, once a champion wrestler, has started a peculiar hobby: he waits outside train stations and photographs commuters; at the end of each month, he stalks someone home for the weekend. Dylan has left his Division I wrestling program and moved to Boston, to live with a family friend, Allie Houston and attend college with her. Stalking is a way for him to fill the void inside of him, to keep his mind off the realities of his new, trivial life....

Overview "These first pages of Lunule set the tone for a fantasy and suspense novel that takes place in modern Boston. When private investigator Emma Finn tracks a former mark in pursuit of a mutual acquaintance, she unknowingly inserts herself in an underground world that mingles undetected with humanity. After a close encounter with one, she learns that not only are werewolves and other supernatural creatures real, but that she fits in better with them than she would have ever thought." --...

Overview "Poshun, which means nourishment in Sanskrit, is a short, medium length narrative fiction film. The film is about the world, and from the point of view of Khushi, an 18-year-old girl. Khushi (she, hers) is a new immigrant to Boston with her mother and father, from a small town in Punjab, India. Her father drives a taxi in Boston and mother is a homemaker trying to assimilate into a country where she doesn't speak the language. Khushi's family want to hold on to the more traditional ways of...

Overview "Secret Ingredients is a novel detailing the experiences of three non-immigrants from different countries in Boston. Vanille is a painter from France struggling to leave her past relationships behind and create new ones. Agustin is a cook from Guatemala fighting for his dreams, dreading his girlfriend's visit to Boston. Eleanor is a journalist crumbling under her mother's pressure of being exceptional. As they struggle with different aspects of their new lives, they somehow form an...

Overview "This is a historical novel about one woman's trajectory as an artist during the Age of Revolutions. As a young woman coming of age in Boston in 1800, Kitty Swan is aware that she is living in a new century in a newly created country. She wants to find a place for herself as an artist in this world. Her path toward achieving this goal is blocked by the plans of her strong-willed mother, Hepzibah Swan, who is adamant that all of her children must marry well to secure the family's finances,...