A Gate at the Stairs

A Gate at the StairsBy: Lorrie Moore Series: Vintage Contemporaries NATIONAL BESTSELLER From one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation (The New York Times) comes a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America. Twenty year old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a gentleman farmer, has come to a university town as a student. When she takes a job as a part time nanny for a mysterious and glamorous family, she finds herself drawn deeper into their

達納總是看凱西不順眼，

With the important pre-reading concepts of rhyme

“I’ve never read anything quite like it

Packed with adorable animal illustrated

Praise for Deep in the Woods

including the enormously disciplined and unhappy Pat Nixon and a small-time Shanghai actress turned monstrous empress

“A beautifully written

正當福子一頭霧水時，「咻──」一陣白煙飄出，磨豆機裡果真蹦出一個精靈女孩，她的表情充滿悲傷，嘰哩咕嚕的說著大家聽不懂的話，咖啡店裡發生的怪事和她有關嗎？為了心愛的藍月咖啡店，福子勢必得找出原因，總不能因為她的惡作劇而讓咖啡店倒閉吧！福子還沒想到該怎麼做，精靈女孩的臉上突然出現另一張褐色的惡魔臉，還發出陰沉的吼叫聲，聽說那是壞魔女口水的詛咒！天啊！幽靈貓福子又遇上了什麼可怕的東西？

“Hannah is superb at delving into her main characters’ psyches and delineating nuances of feeling

the results of which are only now becoming apparent

是不是，偶爾也這樣想？

the fearless and unorthodox Hans Isbrandtsen