A.M. Homes traces the frightening (and hilarious) roots of GOP decay
By Ron Charles

The Unfolding by AM Homes review – a storyline undercut by events

The Best New Fiction

A Big, Brash Novel about US Politics
Sarah Gilmartin

What We're Reading

Fiction: The Unfolding
By Sam Sacks

Literary Fiction
By Anthony Cummins

Good Reads
Kerry Fowler

By Xan Brooks

In A.M. Homes’s New Novel,
the Political is Personal
By Jennifer Haigh

By Cal Revely-Calder

The Unfolding by AM Homes:
it’s an Obama drama
By Johanna Thomas-Corr

Reviewed by Peter Craven

By John Freeman

By Hannah Forbes Black

Man of the House
By Garth Risk Hallberg

By Ellen Wernecke

The Dark Heart of American Life

A.M. Homes' Novel Addresses '70s Childhood
By Jennifer Gilmore

Family life is a bizarre picaresque in AM Homes's new novel
By Theo Tait

By Eugenia Williamson

Why AM Homes is attached to her novel friends
By Jackie McGlone

A Family Affair
By Leigh Newman

Oh, Brother
By Kate Christensen

By Donna Seaman

Saturday Review
By Tom Sutcliffe, Deborah Moggach, James Runcie and Deborah Bull

By John Freeman

AM Homes's 'May We be Forgiven' is a gloriously eccentric novel of the tarnished American dream
By Tim Auld

The acclaimed novelist AM Homes talks about her latest dark satire of 21st-century America
By Richard Grant

'May We Be Forgiven': A Story of Second Chances
By Maureen Corrigan

By Stuart Kelly

Days of their lives
A compelling tale of adultery, murder and internet dating with a soap opera plot
By Emiy Stokes

By Viv Groskop

By Lucy Atkins

AM Homes has written a kinder, gentler sort of satire
By Sarah Churchwell

If this is suburban life, God help America
By Eileen Battersby

By Meredith Maran

Suburban Melodrama, Hope in ‘Forgiven’
By Jihyun Ro

By Michael Schnaub

A.M. Homes on Her New Novel 'May We Be Forgiven'
By Jane Ciabattari

A Novelist's Memoir: 'Mistress's Daughter'
By Maureen Corrigan

Family drama plays out in unconventional fashion.
By John Freeman

Novelist sears birth parents in memoir
By N. Heller McAlpin

By Jane Ciabattari

By Emma Pearse

The End of Malice
A.M Homes Discovers the Best of All Worlds in LA
By Darcy Cosper

"This Book Will Save Your Life": A wake-up call to life's possibilities
By Mark Lindquist

Darkness on the edge of town
By Eileen Battersby 

Fertile Ground
By Ali Smith

Bulletins from the Home Front
Three fascinating fictions go to the heart of the new family.
By Cathleen Medwick

Oddness of the Heart
By Richard Eder

Weird and Wonderful 
By Geoff Nicholson

Imagine the Pain of the Reagans's Lives
By Linton Weeks

Familiar Feelings Undermined In Tales of the Unexpected
By Toni Davidson

Homes cuts to the quick of what's wrong in suburbia
By Fredric Koeppel

Burning Down the House
By Gary Krist

Burning Down the House
By Cathleen Medwick

Burning Down the House
By Michele Slung

Burning Down the House
By David Gates

Under the Apple Pie
By Ali Smith

The Killer As Aesthete
By Will Self

Surprise, Surprise 
By Margot Livesey

Moral America
By Elizabeth Houghton

Virgin Territory
By Cathleen Medwick

Random Objects of Desire
A dark and violent novel, narrated from the lower depths by a jailed psychopath.
By Daphne Merkin

Shock Tactics
By Brian Masters

Looking Glass, Darkly
By Heather Lewis

Session Confessions
By Naomi Schneider

Tug-of-War Of Love And Need
By Leigh Allison Wilson

She Who Talks, Pays
By Maggie Paley

Paying a High Price For Rocking the Cradle 
By Vince Passaro

For Mother's Day, Deep Affection and Dark Obsession
By Lisa Bass

Our Secret Selves
By Bob Satuloff

Surreal Suburbia 
By C. Carr

The Dark Danger In 'Safety'
By Margaret Camp

By Crescent Dragonwagon

Jack is a clean, satisfying success
By Mark Adamo