Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

  • Apple
  • Android
  • Windows Phone
  • Android

To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number.
Download to your computer
Kindle Cloud Reader
Facebook Twitter Pinterest <Embed>
FREE Shipping on orders with at least $25 of books.
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.
Amends: A Novel has been added to your Cart
Want it Thursday, Aug. 11? Order within and choose this date at checkout.
Ship to:
Select a shipping address:
To see addresses, please
or
Please enter a valid US zip code.
or
FREE Shipping on orders over $25.
Used: Like New | Details
Sold by yjdbooks
Fulfilled by Amazon
Condition: Used: Like New
Comment: Excellent condition. Ships directly from Amazon.

Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and .

If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you increase your sales. We invite you to learn more about Fulfillment by Amazon .

Sorry, there was a problem.

There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Please try again.

Sorry, there was a problem.

List unavailable.
Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon
Flip to back Flip to front
Listen Playing... Paused   You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more
See all 2 images

Amends: A Novel Paperback – August 15, 2015

by
Eve Tushnet (Author)
› Visit Amazon's Eve Tushnet Page
Find all the books, read about the author, and more.
See search results for this author
Are you an author? Learn about Author Central
Eve Tushnet (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars 21 customer reviews
See all 4 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions
Price
New from Used from
Kindle
"Please retry"
$3.91
— —
Paperback
"Please retry"
$14.00
$10.01 $6.94
The Daughter of Union County
The Daughter of Union County
To save his heritage, he hides his daughter’s true identity—but he can’t protect her forever. Learn More
$14.00 FREE Shipping on orders with at least $25 of books. In Stock. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.
click to open popover

Frequently Bought Together

  • Amends: A Novel
  • +
  • Eat Bacon, Don't Jog: Get Strong. Get Lean. No Bullshit.
Total price: $23.60
Buy the selected items together

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1
This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.
Back
  1. Laurus
    Eugene Vodolazkin
    4.6 out of 5 stars 60
    Hardcover
  2. The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism
    Yuval Levin
    4.2 out of 5 stars 35
    #1 Best Seller in Political Ideologies
    Hardcover
    $12.10 Prime
  3. Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith
    Eve Tushnet
    4.3 out of 5 stars 37
    Paperback
    $11.14 Prime
  4. You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
    James K. A. Smith
    4.5 out of 5 stars 41
    Hardcover
    $14.02 Prime
  5. Arriving at Amen: Seven Catholic Prayers That Even I Can Offer
    Leah Libresco
    4.8 out of 5 stars 34
    Paperback
    $14.31 Prime
  6. God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith
    Cardinal Robert Sarah
    4.9 out of 5 stars 106
    Paperback
    $11.61 Prime
Next
If you buy a new print edition of this book (or purchased one in the past), you can buy the Kindle Edition for FREE. Print edition purchase must be sold by Amazon. Learn more.
For thousands of qualifying books, your past, present, and future print-edition purchases now lets you buy the Kindle edition for $2.99 or less. (Textbooks available for $9.99 or less.)
  • Thousands of books are eligible, including current and former best sellers.
  • Look for the Kindle MatchBook icon on print and Kindle book detail pages of qualifying books. You can also see more Kindle MatchBook titles here or look up all of your Kindle MatchBook titles here.
  • Read the Kindle edition on any Kindle device or with a free Kindle Reading App.
  • Print edition must be purchased new and sold by Amazon.com.
  • Gifting of the Kindle edition at the Kindle MatchBook price is not available.
Learn more about Kindle MatchBook.
The latest book club pick from Oprah
"The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead is a magnificent novel chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. See more

Product Details

  • Paperback: 330 pages
  • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (August 15, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1514603063
  • ISBN-13: 978-1514603062
  • Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,139,850 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Customer Reviews

Top Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsBrilliantly witty, but also piercingly truthful about forgiveness
By Leah L. on August 20, 2015
Format: Paperback
Eve's first novel is excellent. I read it for the first time on a plane and was sorely tempted to wake up the stranger who was my seatmate, so I'd have the pleasure of reading some of her one-liners aloud (just from the first page "He had a dilapidated body and a face like the last days of the Raj: jowly, discredited, eager for the final defeat.")

But this isn't a book that got distracted by it's own cleverness. When anything tips close to pastiche, it tends to because I'm seeing through the eyes of one of the characters, all busily trying to rewrite the story of their own lives, and (most of them) pretty ready to believe that tragedy can be farce, if you tell it well enough.

The book delivers on the title. What the characters, and I wind up remembering in tranquility is what it looks like for forgiveness (or the initial wound that necessitated it) to be an ongoing act of love, not a "successful" act of closure, that makes a relationship so tidy that you can call it finished. I'm confident that this book will bear fruit (gradually and weirdly) in my life.
Comment 10 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsCutting satire that deepens into heartfelt compassion
By Eileen Maksym on September 21, 2015
Format: Paperback Verified Purchase
When I started reading Amends, I was delighted at the sharp writing and the cutting satire. I found myself highlighting phrases on every other page so that I could later share them with my husband. ("Medea shot her a look like Sarah Palin shooting wolves from a helicopter." - pg 83 ) The characters were perfect parodies of the sort of people our society likes to both revere and ridicule: the bow tie-wearing conservative, the angry lesbian playwright, the high school sports star, the (way) overly eco-conscious social justice warrior, the talented yet troubled gay man, the token outspoken Christian. And it was that same combination of sharpness and satire that the reality show within the story was initially going for; their participants were chosen because they were well spoken train wrecks that checked off human interest boxes.

The genius of the book, though, is that as it progresses, it deepens. The passages that I wound up highlighting to share with my husband went mostly from those that made me laugh to those that made me think, made me feel, made me nod my head in recognition, lift my eyebrows in realization, or laugh because it was true ("I'm a very grateful a**hole." Gair grinned. "That is actually the target audience of the Christian faith." - pg 267). The characters go from representatives of categories to fully formed people, both in the writing and in the world of the narrative. We're brought to truly feel for them, to cheer for them, to cry with them. Their growth and setbacks and relationships are portrayed with all the complexities of the realities of friendship, forgiveness and love.

I cannot recommend this book enough. It starts witty and delightful and end powerful and moving, and it is a journey that you will be glad you shared with the characters.
Comment 2 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
4.0 out of 5 starsCome for the characters, stay for the rehab
By Ryan on August 22, 2015
Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase
In AMENDS, Eve Tushnet manages to balance a heavy dose of poignancy with an equal helping of humor and wit. I am a sucker for this combination, so I loved this book. The heavier themes of the book have to do with substance abuse, which does not figure prominently in my background, but the characters' struggles and pain were still relatable to me. As for the humor, I found Eve's writing to be deliciously dry, with smart, sharp jokes, sly irony, and a subtle delight in the absurd. I was laughing out loud quite a bit as I read. If you don't care about anything else in the book, I still recommend it for the humor.

The characters were delightfully portrayed, and Eve played them off each other well as an ensemble cast. Each one of the main characters is singular and memorable, from the sanctimonious wolf-girl to the Ethiopian transplant and even the puckish jock. I feel like I could have read a book about each one of them.

My only real criticism is that sometimes the narrative strays from being about the characters to being about the rehab process. For example, some of the therapy sessions are narrated and these parts begin to feel like Eve is instructing us on rehab therapy concepts, using the characters as hand-puppets. This is probably a great way to train therapists (and it was in fact educational to me, which I don't want to sound unappreciative of), but I was looking for a novel about the characters. Like I said, though, most of the novel delivers, especially toward the end, where they are out of rehab and coping with real life. (Importantly, the novel does not end when the rehab ends.)

tl;dr - Simultaneously hilarious and touching: a good read.

P.S. Eve, if you're reading:
- Bentley rocks my world!
- Dylan & Gair 4ever!!!! <3
Comment 4 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsAmends is an amazing character driven fictional look at the rehab process and ...
By ddsilver on August 24, 2015
Format: Paperback Verified Purchase
Amends is an amazing character driven fictional look at the rehab process and a possibly prophetic look at the future of reality TV. I felt like I had met several of the characters in real life, their emotions, thoughts, and actions felt familiar and real. The book walks a fine line between drama and comedy, dispensing complex looks at real issues through the eyes of deep characters while keeping it light and humorous in the right places. Its an odd but endearing book, if you like a bit of dark humor and hilarious one liners this is the book for you.
Comment 2 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse

Most Recent Customer Reviews

2.0 out of 5 starsI wanted to love this book more

I wanted to love this book more, but there's not enough here.It's not a deep insightful book about addiction. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Jason
5.0 out of 5 starsSharp, Funny Satire With a Warm Heart

An unlikely group of alcoholic misfits wind up in rehab---and being filmed for a reality television show. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Julia Sullivan
5.0 out of 5 starsFrom beach read to deep book.

Amends start out as a fun beach read, a snarky take-off on Reality TV, rehab and our society in general. It contains wonderful one-liners. Read more

Published 9 months ago by Interguru
5.0 out of 5 starsa charming, hilarious romp

Amends is a charming, hilarious romp about a subject I loathe - reality television. Except it's not so much about that as it is about some very silly and sad characters who run the... Read more

Published 9 months ago by Paul Erik Schumann
4.0 out of 5 starsMakes You Laugh and Makes You Think

A very striking debut, a novel in which we read about people watching people watch themselves try to heal in a reality show rehab, thus combining two great innocations of... Read more

Published 10 months ago by Maggie Gallagher
5.0 out of 5 starsFunny, perceptive, and hopeful

Eve Tushnet writes like a person who loves her (fundamentally flawed) characters. In the course of a story full of wordplay and biting satire, she makes her readers care about the... Read more

Published 10 months ago by Anna
4.0 out of 5 starsThis book has a few really brilliant lines that made me laugh out loud

This book has a few really brilliant lines that made me laugh out loud. And as a person who identifies as part of a (sometimes online) community of feminists and progressives, I... Read more

Published 11 months ago by Julianne Leigh Stennes
5.0 out of 5 starsLike a few other reviewers

Like a few other reviewers, I was drawn to this book primarily due to my enthusiasm for the author more than my interest in its particular subject material, but I found the novel... Read more

Published 11 months ago by Brent Bailey
4.0 out of 5 starsand does so without effacing their weird fashion choices and their...

I worry that my family thinks I'm sadistic based on how much I laughed while reading this book. ("Aren't you reading a book about rehab? Read more

Published 11 months ago by David S.
4.0 out of 5 starsA spirituality of humiliation

I loved this book and said more about it in a blog post here: http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2015/09/eve-tushnets-spirituality-of-humiliation

Published 11 months ago by Wesley Hill

Set up an Amazon Giveaway

Amends: A Novel
Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway
This item: Amends: A Novel
Set up a giveaway

There's a problem loading this menu right now.

Learn more about Amazon Prime.