Named a Best Book of 2018 by Real Simple «This unostentatious yet intricate novel follows the women of a family across nearly a century . . . Domestic scenes emit blasts of emotional life, as the women grapple with the 'swooning collapse and then the expanding distance' between their interior lives and the outside world.» — The New Yorker Suzanne Matson’s engrossing and intimate new novel, Ultraviolet , centers on Kathryn—the da ...
Lit by the hormonal neon glow of Miami, this heady, multilingual debut novel follows a Colombian teenager’s coming-of-age and coming out as she plunges headfirst into lust and evangelism. “Ebullient and assertive. . . . Francisca’s soul stinks up the place beautifully in Fiebre Tropical .” — The New York Times "Juli Delgado Lopera—remember that name—is an irrevere ...
"Cross Garcia Marquez and Simenon and set the piece on the Sea of Japan, and you’ll have a feel for Ono’s latest… Fans of Kenzaburo Oe’s Death by Water and Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 will enjoy Ono’s enigmatic story.” — Kirkus (starred review) All societies, whether big or small, try to hide their wounds away. In this, his Mishima Prize-winning masterpiece, Masatsugu Ono considers a fishing village on the Japanese coast. Here a new poli ...
"I told you so, you damned fools." H G Wells The father of Science Fiction predicted the events of the next century with almost 100% accuracy. In The Time Machine he depicted a dying world destroyed by humanity long before anyone realized climate change was becoming an urgent issue, making the famous story even more chillingly relevant today. Inventing the now-familiar concept of time travel, Wells sends his English scientist 802,701 year ...
THE OFFICIAL NORTH AMERICAN EDITION"Beguiling, audacious… rises to its own challenges in engaging intellectually as well as wholeheartedly with its questions about gender, genre and the concept of wilderness. The novel displays wide reading, clever writing and amusing dialogue." — The Guardian This is a new kind of nature writing – one that crosses fiction with science writing and puts gender politics at the center of the landscape. Erin, a ...
"Masande Ntshanga is a wildly talented writer. Get in on his brilliance now so you can claim you always knew he'd be great." —Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling Triangulum is an ambitious, often philosophical and genre-bending novel that covers a period of over 40 years in South Africa’s recent past and near future—starting from the collapse of the apartheid homeland system in the early 1990s, to the economic corrosion of ...
*2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist*Longlisted for The Crook’s Corner Book Prize *Longlisted for the 2019 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award*A Best Book of 2018 —Kirkus Reviews , BuzzFeed News , Entropy , LitReactor , LitHub * 35 Over 35 Award 2018 [/i] *One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Fall —[i]Vulture , Harper's BAZAAR , BuzzFeed News , Publishers Weekly , The Millions , Bustle , Fast Company It’s 16-year ...
*A Best Book of 2018 — Entropy “Kriseman’s is a new voice to celebrate.” —Publishers Weekly The Blurry Years is a powerful and unorthodox coming-of-age story from an assured new literary voice, featuring a stirringly twisted mother-daughter relationship, set against the sleazy, vividly-drawn backdrop of late-seventies and early-eighties Florida. Callie—who ages from six to eighteen over the course of the book—leads a scattered childh ...
