Bad Little Falls
Bad Little Falls finds Maine game warden Mike Bowditch in professional exile, transferred to a remote outpost near the Canadian border after the fallout of earlier events. In the middle of a blizzard, he is called to the cabin of…
Books
Read MoreBad Little Falls
Trespasser
Trespasser finds Maine game warden Mike Bowditch drawn into what first looks like a routine roadside incident: a woman has hit a deer on a remote road, but when Mike arrives, both the driver and the animal are gone. The…
The Bone Orchard
The Bone Orchard opens with Mike Bowditch no longer serving as a Maine game warden after a family tragedy, trying instead to build a quieter life as a fishing guide in the North Woods. That uneasy calm is broken when…
You Don’t Know Me
You Don’t Know Me: The Incarcerated Women of York Prison Voice Their Truths is not a novel but a collaborative nonfiction collection shaped through Wally Lamb’s long-running writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, Connecticut’s prison for women. The book gathers…
The River Is Waiting
The River Is Waiting follows Corby Ledbetter, a young father whose life is already under strain from job loss, new parenthood, and a secret dependence on alcohol and pills when he causes a tragedy that destroys his family’s fragile stability.…
I’ll Take You There
I’ll Take You There returns to Felix Funicello, the same character introduced in Wishin’ and Hopin’, but this time he is an adult looking back while also being pulled into an unusual collision between past and present. The novella centers…
We Are Water
We Are Water centers on Annie Oh, an artist in Connecticut whose family is thrown into upheaval when, after a long marriage to psychologist Orion Oh, she leaves him and prepares to marry Viveca, the woman who represents her work…
Wishin’ and Hopin’
Wishin’ and Hopin’ is a lighter, more nostalgic novel than Wally Lamb’s larger family dramas, centering on ten-year-old Felix Funicello during the Christmas season of 1964 in a small Connecticut town. Felix is a fifth grader at a Catholic school,…
The Hour I First Believed
The Hour I First Believed follows Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, whose lives are shattered after Maureen survives the Columbine High School shooting. What begins as the story of a marriage already carrying strain becomes something much larger, as…
I Know This Much Is True
I Know This Much Is True follows Dominick Birdsey, whose life is inseparable from that of his identical twin brother Thomas, a man living with paranoid schizophrenia. When Thomas commits a shocking public act, Dominick is pulled into a painful…