A. M. Homes is the author of Things You Should Know, Los Angeles: People, Places, and the Castle on the Hill, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, Appendix A, In a Country of Mothers, The Safety of Objects, and Jack. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Foundation for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, and The Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Prize).
Books
The Diary of a Rapist
Spurned by his wife at home and by superiors at work, a young man—not so young anymore—sits in his cramped San Francisco apartment channeling everything around him into a diary that is a scratched record of a world going to pieces.