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THE UNDERNEATH NOVEL BY MELANIE FINN
← “The Underneath is an excellent thriller.” —Star Tribune
THE UNDERNEATH IS AN INTELLIGENT and considerate exploration of violence—both personal and social—and whether violence may ever be justified. With the assurance and grace of her acclaimed novel The Gloaming, Melanie Finn returns with a precisely layered and tense new literary thriller.
PALACES NOVEL BY SIMON JACOBS
← “Palaces is robust, both current and clairvoyant… With a pitch-perfect portrayal of the punk scene and idiosyncratic, meaty characters, this is a wonderful novel that takes no prisoners.” —Foreword Reviews, starred review
WITH INCISIVE PRECISION and a cool detachment, Simon Jacobs has crafted a surreal and spellbinding first novel of horror and intrigue.
THEY CAN’T KILL US UNTIL THEY KILL US ESSAYS BY HANIF ABDURRAQIB
→ Best Books 2017: NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC (Canada), Stereogum, National Post (Canada), Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books (November), The Los Angeles Review, Michigan Daily
← “Funny, painful, precise, desperate, and loving throughout. Not a day has sounded the same since I read him.” —Greil Marcus, Village Voice
BINARY STAR NOVEL BY SARAH GERARD
→ Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
→ Best Books 2015: BuzzFeed, Vanity Fair, NPR
← “Rhythmic, hallucinatory, yet vivid as crystal.” —NPR
AN ELEGIAC, INTENSE PORTRAIT of two young lovers as they battle their personal afflictions while on a road trip across the U.S.
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WHITE DIALOGUES STORIES BENNETT SIMS
← “Anyone who admires such pyrotechnics of language will find 21st-century echoes of Edgar Allan Poe in Sims’ portraits of paranoia and delusion, with their zodiacal narrowing and the maddening tungsten spin of their narratives.” —New York Times Book Review
IN THESE ELEVEN STORIES, Sims moves from slow-burn psychological horror to playful comedy, bringing us into the minds of people who are haunted by their environments, obsessions, and doubts.
SEEING PEOPLE OFF NOVEL BY JANA BEŇOV
→ Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature
← “A fascinating novel. Fans of inward-looking postmodernists like Clarice Lispector will find much to admire.” —NPR
A KALEIDOSCOPIC, POETIC, AND DARKLY FUNNY portrait of a young couple navigating post-socialist Slovakia.
THE VINE THAT ATE THE SOUTH NOVEL BY J.D. WILKES
← “Undeniably one of the smartest, most original Southern Gothic novels to come along in years.” —NPR
WITH THE ENERGY AND UNIQUE VISION that established him as a celebrated musician, Wilkes here is an accomplished storyteller on a Homeric voyage that strikes at the heart of American mythology.
THE DROP EDGE OF YONDER NOVEL BY RUDOLPH WURLITZER
← “One of the most interesting voices in American fiction.” —Rolling Stone
WURLITZER’S FIRST NOVEL in nearly 25 years is an epic adventure that explores the truth and temptations of the American myth, revealing one of America’s most transcendant writers at the top of his form.
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THE GLOAMING NOVEL BY MELANIE FINN
→ New York Times Notable Book of 2016
← “Deeply satisfying.” —New York Times Book Review
AFTER AN ACCIDENT LEAVES her estranged in a Swiss town, Pilgrim Jones absconds to east Africa, settling in a Tanzanian outpost where she can’t shake the unsettling feeling that she’s being followed.
THE ONLY ONES NOVEL BY CAROLA DIBBELL
→ Best Books 2015: Washington Post; O, The Oprah Magazine; NPR
← “Breathtaking.” —NPR
INEZ WANDERS A POST-PANDEMIC world immune to disease. Her life is altered when a grief-stricken mother that hired her to provide genetic material backs out, leaving Inez with the product: a baby girl.
THE INCANTATIONS OF DANIEL JOHNSTON GRAPHIC NOVEL BY RICARDO CAVOLO WRITTEN BY SCOTT MCCLANAHAN
← “Wholly unexpected, grotesque, and poignant.” —The FADER
RENOWNED ARTIST RICARDO CAVOLO and Scott McClanahan combine talents in this dazzling, eye-popping graphic biography of artist and musician Daniel Johnston.
THE REACTIVE NOVEL BY MASANDE NTSHANGA
← “Often teems with a beauty that seems to carry on in front of its glue-huffing wasters despite themselves.” —Slate
A CLEAR-EYED, COMPASSIONATE ACCOUNT of a young HIV+ man grappling with the sudden death of his brother in South Africa.
THE GLACIER NOVEL BY JEFF WOOD
← “Gorgeously and urgently written.” —Library Journal, starred review
FOLLOWING A CATERER AT a convention center, a surveyor residing in a storage unit, and the masses lining up for an Event on the horizon, The Glacier is a poetic rendering of the pre-apocalypse.
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