Omar Razaghi, a twenty-eight-year-old doctoral student at the University of Kansas, has won a grant to write a biography of Jules Gund, a deceased Latin American writer. There's just one obstacle: Gund's family has not given him authorization....
The Kite Runner meets The Things They Carried in this explosive debut that maps the blurred lines between good and bad, soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished.
It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with...
Three brothers caught up in a whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal culminating in an assassination plot, set in prewar New York.
June 1939. Francis Dempsey and his shell-shocked brother Michael are on an ocean liner from Ireland bound for...
It's Edie Snow's first year of high school and she's already struggling to find a group of friends to fit in with. To make matters worse, her mom is making her walk her cousin Merry, who has Down Syndrome, home from school every day.
Edie joins the...
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side."...