FALLING STAR author Chantel Acevedo is an acclaimed Latina author, whose much anticipated THE LIVING INFINITE is out from Europa in Fall 2018. FALLING STAR, winner of the Bakwin Prize, is the story of Cuban immigrants in the Mariel era. It was awarded a national bronze medal for Multicultural Fiction from the Independent Book Publisher Awards (IPPY), was a finalist for the International Latino Book Award, and the Balcones Fiction Prize. ...
The spare, poetic prose of Raymond Carver meets Jenny Offiill's <i>Department of Speculation</i> and Elizabeth Strout's <i>My Name Is Lucy Barton</i>. In a period when many families in the heartland are shattered by drug addiction, this timely novel chronicles one woman's attempts to understand and survive her blended family, including her meth-addicted son. BEAUT, the winner of the 2018 Lee Smith Novel Pri ...
A SIBA OKRA Pick “An emotionally resonant tale of secrets, regret, and absolution that held me spellbound. You simply have to read it.” —Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for ElephantsSpanning several decades and written in an authentic voice both lyrical and wise, The Sisters of Glass Ferry is a haunting novel about small-town Southern secrets, loss and atonement, and the unbreakable bond between siblings. Glass Fe ...
Introduced by Douglas Gifford. This hilarious novel charts the rise and fall (and perhaps the rise again) of Magnus Merriman—would-be lover, writer, politician, idealist and crofter—moved by dreams of greatness and a talent for farcical defeat. Convinced that ‘small nations are safer to live in than big ones’, Magnus becomes a Nationalist candidate for the parliamentary seat of ‘Kinluce’. With details based on Linklater’s ...
It's the end of summer 2003. George W. Bush has recently declared the mission in Iraq accomplished, the unemployment rate is at its highest in years, and Martha Stewart has just been indicted for insider trading. Meanwhile, somewhere in the Midwest, Troy Augustus Loudermilk (fair-haired, statuesque, charismatic) and his companion Harry Rego (definitely none of those things) step out of a silver Land Cruiser and onto the campus of The Semina ...
