Prague by Arthur Phillips Five young North Americans sit in a café in Budapest, Hungary, desperately trying to become a part of "history in the making" as post-Communist Europe emerges in the early 1990s.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham The Hours is a passionate and poignant story about how the lives and fates of three women, each living in a different era and a different city, intertwine.
Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle Unself-conscious yuppie privilege meets heroic immigrant endurance in this epic clash of cultures set in suburban Southern California.
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri By deciding to change his unusual first name, Gogol Ganguli struggles to reject a namesake he does not completely understand and distance himself from a past he does not fully know.
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore From a fairytale-themed amusement park, to art galleries in Paris, to a Baptist summer camp, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? explores the losses and gains that accompany a girl's transition to womanhood.
