“From Susie Wong to Madame Butterfly to Miss Saigon: you might think that we've had enough of American men adventuring, scoring, and coming undone in the Far East. But you'd be wrong. Gammarino's Big in Japan is a shrewd and lively book, sharp-eyed and unsparing in its account of a young American's good and very bad moments overseas. The writing is wired and the ultimate judgement is merciless. It's seductiv ...
We were exposed to these phenomena in order that we might learn something, but of course the lessons we learn are not always what was intended. So begins Matthew Garth’s story of the fall of 1962, when the shooting of a young woman on Thanksgiving Day sets off a chain of unsettling events in small-town Willow Falls, Minnesota. Matthew first sees Louisa Lindahl in Dr. Dunbar’s home office, and at the time her bullet wound make ...
This second volume of poetry by experimental writer Jesse Ball is a philosophical recasting of myth and legend. Employing an eerie narrative simplicity, these always unpredictable poems are cautionary tales of the oppressiveness of monolithic culture on the development of artistic, philosophical, and political leadership. Alternating from the personal to the public, Ball attains a wide enough vantage to observe the cowardliness of historians in ...
If by 1970 I had started to slip, it wasn’t by much. To make more of the decline would be easy: exaggeration resonates in candor. My income had fallen, though not to any depth. That would have required a spectacular reversal, and, contrary impulses notwithstanding, I seem to avoid spectacular actions of any kind. I still had plenty of money in 1970, more than my neighbors could reasonably hope to come by, yet not so much anymore that I ...
Originally published in 1974, this gripping novel tells the tale of the Easter family of Ontarion, Iowa. Ansel Easter was a favored minister until he rescued a grotesque creature from a carnival sideshow. His sons, C and Sam, suffer in the shadow of their outcast father until his violent death. C and Sam leave the home their father built for a new beginning, and find fortune building a lucrative business called the Associates — but when ...
MILKWEED NATIONAL FICTION PRIZE WINNERINDIE HEARTLAND BESTSELLERONE BOOK SOUTH DAKOTA SELECTIONMINNESOTA BOOK AWARD FINALISTMIDWEST BOOKSELLERS BOOK AWARD FINALISTGrey Rabbit, an Ojibwe woman living by Lake Superior in 1622, is a mother and wife whose dream-life has taken on fearful dimensions. As she struggles to understand “what she is shown at night,” her psyche and her world edge toward irreversible change. In 1902, Berit ...
Piekna opowiesc o przyjazni i podejmowaniu trudnych wyborow. Nora zajmuje sie organizacja zajec z ceramiki, choc wlasciwie za bardzo sie na tym nie zna. Ma tylko warsztat, w ktorym pracowal jej zaginiony w tajemniczych okolicznosciach maz. Teraz kobieta musi jakos zarobic na utrzymanie pieciorga dzieci po tym, jak zostala zupelnie sama… Dolaczaja do niej Lena, Goska i Marta. I kazda z nich ma wlasne problemy do rozwiazania. Pierwsze ...
WYSTARCZY JEDEN KROK, BY PORUSZYC LAWINE. Kinga jest swietna matka, doskonala zona, (prawie) perfekcyjna pania domu i pracownikiem miesiaca. Wszystko zmienia sie w chwili, kiedy jedzie na 20-lecie swojej studniowki i nawiazuje romans z dawnym kolega ze szkoly. Sekretne spotkania szybko przestaja im wystarczac. Kochanek namawia, by odeszla od meza i zaczela z nim nowe zycie. Kinga sie zgadza… i wtedy wszystko nagle sie komplikuje. Zyc ...
In this comic novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden of Eden—but there are snakes in this Eden too. For one thing, Adam's wife Priscila has fallen in love with the brash director of national security—also named Adam—who uses violence against token victims to hide the fact that he's letting drug runners, murderers, and kidnap ...
