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	Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan Stewart O'Nan, author of ten novels, including Snow Angels and A Prayer for the Dying, has been called "the bard of the working class". This latest work is set in a Red Lobster restaurant in the far corner of a run-down New England mall.  It is a poignant look at what a man does when he discovers that his best might not be good enough. Also try: Empire Falls by Richard Russo (another working class bard).
	Consumption by Kevin Patterson Born in the 1950s in the Canadian Arctic, Victoria grows up among the nomadic Inuit until, at the age of ten, diagnosed with TB, she is sent to a southern sanitarium, where she discovers the wonders of the modern world. Also try: Midnight at the Dragon Cafe by Judy Fong Bates and Mackerel Sky by Natalee Caple.
	A Peculiar Grace by Jeffrey Lent The reclusive world of Hewitt Pearce, a forty-three-year-old blacksmith who produces custom ironwork, is thrown into turmoil by an encounter with Jessica, a troubled young vagabond he encounters in the woods near his home. Also try: Trespass: a novel by Valerie Martin and Mirror Lake by Thomas Christopher Greene..