Saturn's Return to New York

Elegiac, elegant, and more relevant than ever, this new edition of Sara Gran’s debut novel is a modern literary classic.

Cities and families make up our lives in equal measure: both never stop changing, and both can protect us, hold us—or cut us to the bone. For Mary Forrest, 29, her city and her family are deeply entwined: her mother, Evelyn, is the editor of the most prestigious literary magazine in New York, as much a part of the city as the Chelsea Hotel (now condos) or Green-Wood Cemete...