Landfall

For fans of Jeffrey Eugenides''s The Virgin Suicides, Landfall is a clear-eyed, witty and warm debut novel by former Granta editor Helen Gordon, that marks the arrival of a major new literary talent.

Alice Robinson, art critic for a magazine so fashionable it''s just gone out of business, finds herself agreeing to housesit for her parents. Moving back home to a suburbia she thought long behind her,...