Excerpt­ed from The Two-Fam­i­ly House by Lyn­da Cohen LoigmanThe domes­tic, fem­i­nine scene unfold­ing before Mort did noth­ing to improve his spir­its. Upstairs, in his…

Excerpt­ed from The Din­ner Par­ty: A Nov­el by Bren­da JanowitzSylvia left the most dif­fi­cult thing until the end. She had a habit of doing that — leav­ing things…