"Not since Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird or Agota Kristof’s Notebook Trilogy has there been such a harrowing novel about what it’s like to be a young person in a war. That Chris Abani is able to find humanity, mercy, and even, yes,...
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A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War era.
At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable...
With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's...
From the award-winning author of No One Is Here Except All of Us, an imaginative novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and '70s that suddenly loses its fortune — and its bearings.
Labor Day, 1976, Martha's Vineyard. Summering...
It is Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940’s, and a set of twins is separated at birth by a desperate nurse. Nat Cartwright goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman. But his twin brother is to begin his days as...
“Michael Bible may have hit what a lot of us were trying, a singular new voice for CEOs to slackers. He’s so open, so easy, so fluid, you’ll smile with joy turning every page.”—Barry Hannah
If Nicholson Baker shaved his beard and moved...
Interweaving the real and the surreal, Charles Johnson spins eight fantastic tales of transformations and metamorphoses. An Illinois farmer teaches a young slave everything he knows — yielding fatal consequences. A young boy growing to manhood as...
Twelve stories about the African experience of slavery in America, by the National Book Award-winning novelist.
Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us with a...
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Oates's latest collection explores certain favorite Oatesian themes, primary among them violence, loss, and privilege. Three of the stories feature white, upper-class, educated widows whose sheltered married lives have left them unprepared for...
"[T]his luminous debut…captures precisely the heartache of growing up."
— Library Journal , Top Spring Indie Fiction
"A powerful story…a universal look at the complexity of how people wrestle with guilt and blame amid tragic loss."
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