Cathleen Schine’roman The Grammarians is a comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the beauty, mischief, and occasional treachery of language. Sarah Blake’roman an, The Guest Book, tells the story of a family and a country that buries its past in quiet, until the present calls forth a reckoning.  Roxana Robinson’pa Dawson’s Fall, a novel that draws on the lives of her great-grandparents, is a tragic morality tale set in Reconstruction-era South.