In ‘The Rachel Incident,’ by Caroline O’Donoghue, a young Irish woman remembers the friendship that shaped the rest of her life.

Frank Bascombe returns in ‘Be Mine.’ Now in his mid-70s, he’s caring for a middle-aged son with ALS, and the two embark on a road trip.

In her memoir ‘Beyond This Harbor,’ Styron, 95, looks back at her life before, during and since her marriage to the novelist William Styron.

When a magazine writer reads a Paris Review story that seems to be based on an encounter she once had with the now deceased writer, she sets out to learn more.