Young Hearts Crying
by Richard Yates | 
Losing Battles
by Eudora Welty | 
Omensetter's Luck
by William H. Gass | 
The American Woman in the Chinese Hat
by Carole Maso | 
Gerald's Party
by Robert Coover | 
Whores for Gloria
by William T. Vollmann | 
The Ultimate Good Luck
by Richard Ford | 
A Rage to Live
by John O'Hara | 
Bech Is Back
by John Updike | 
Running Dog
by Don DeLillo | 
Full of Life
by John Fante | 
An American Dream
by Norman Mailer | 
Set This House on Fire
by William Styron | 
Of the Farm
by John Updike | 
Lie Down in Darkness
by William Styron | 
The Web and the Rock
by Thomas Wolfe |
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
by Richard Yates | 
Cold Spring Harbor
by Richard Yates | 
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck | 
Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger |
In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. We observe the sisters over four decades, watching them grow into two very different women. Sarah is stable and stalwart, settling into an unhappy marriage. Emily is precocious and independent, struggling with one unsatisfactory love affair after another. Richard Yates's classic novel is about how both women struggle to overcome their tarnished family's past, and how both finally reach for some semblance of renewal.