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QUICK VIEW The Blurry Years
a novel by
Eleanor Kriseman
A Best Book of 2018
"Assured and affecting... Kriseman’s is a new voice to celebrate."
—Publishers Weekly
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. The Blurry Years
a novel by
Eleanor Kriseman
$ 11.99View full product details →$ 15.99*Best Books of 2018 —Entropy
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 childhood, moving from cars to strangers’ houses to the sand-dusted apartments of the tourist towns that litter the Florida coastline.
Callie’s is a story about what it’s like to grow up too fast and absorb too much, to watch adults behaving badly; what it’s like to be simultaneously in thrall to and terrified of the mother who is the only family you've ever known, who moves you from town to town to leave her own mistakes behind.
With precision and poetry, Kriseman's moving tale of a young girl struggling to find her way in the world is potent, and, ultimately, triumphant. -
QUICK VIEW The Underneath
a novel by
Melanie Finn
"Finn is a remarkably confident and supple storyteller."
—New York Times
With the assurance and grace of her acclaimed novel The Gloaming—which earned her comparisons to Patricia Highsmith—Melanie Finn returns with a precisely layered and tense new literary thriller that travels from the Northeast Kingdom to remote Africa. The Underneath
a novel by
Melanie Finn
$ 19.50View full product details →$ 26.00With the assurance and grace of her acclaimed novel The Gloaming—which earned her comparisons to Patricia Highsmith—Melanie Finn returns with a precisely layered and tense new literary thriller.
The Underneath follows Kay Ward, a former journalist struggling with the constraints of motherhood. Along with her husband and two children, she rents a quaint Vermont farmhouse for the summer. The idea is to disconnect from their work-based lifestyle—that had her doggedly pursuing a genocidal leader of child soldiers known as General Christmas, even through Kay's pregnancy and the birth of their second child—in an effort to repair their shaky marriage.
It isn't long before Kay's husband is called away and she discovers a mysterious crawlspace in the rental with unsettling writing etched into the wall. Alongside some of the house's other curiosities and local sleuthing, Kay is led to believe that something terrible may have happened to the home's owners.
Kay's investigation leads her to a local logger, Ben Comeau, a man beset with his own complicated and violent past. A product of the foster system and life-long resident of the Northeast Kingdom, Ben struggles to overcome his situation, and to help an abused child whose addict mother is too incapacitated to care about the boy's plight.
The Underneath is an intelligent and considerate exploration of violence—both personal and social—and whether violence may ever be justified. -
QUICK VIEW Sirens
a memoir by
Joshua Mohr
A Best Book of 2017
"Raw-edged and whippet-thin... Mohr’s prose is lean and scrappy—a featherweight boxer that packs a punch."
—Los Angeles Times
With the vulnerability and grit for which he's praised, Mohr returns with a harrowing chronicle of substance abuse and relapse. Sirens
a memoir by
Joshua Mohr
$ 11.99View full product details →$ 15.99*Best of 2017 —San Francisco Chronicle
"Raw-edged and whippet-thin, Sirens swings from tales of bawdy addiction to charged moments of a father struggling to stay clean. Mohr’s prose is lean and scrappy—a featherweight boxer that packs a punch.”
—Los Angeles TimesWith vulnerability, grit, and hard-won humor, acclaimed novelist Joshua Mohr returns with his first book-length work of non-fiction, a raw and big-hearted chronicle of substance abuse, relapse, and family compassion.
Sirens provides a harrowing and complicated account of Mohr's years of substance abuse and culpability. Employing the characterization and chimerical prose for which he has been lauded, Mohr leaves no rock from his sordid past un-turned, from his childhood swilling fuzzy navels as a latch-key kid, through the black-outs and fist-fights, his first failed marriage to his path to sobriety, through the birth of his daughter and the three strokes he suffers in his thirties that reveal he has a literal hole in his heart.
Sirens is a spectacularly moving tome of honesty and emotion from one of our most gifted contemporary writers. -
QUICK VIEW Binary Star
a novel by
Sarah Gerard
L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist
A Best Book of 2015
"Rhythmic, hallucinatory, yet vivid as crystal."
—NPR
An intense, elegiac portrait of young lovers as they battle personal afflictions. Binary Star
a novel by
Sarah Gerard
$ 12.00View full product details →$ 16.00*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist.
*Best Books of 2015 —NPR,Vanity Fair
*Best Fiction of 2015 —BuzzFeed
*Best Independent Press Books 2015 —Flavorwire
*Favorite Novels 2015 —Largehearted BoyThe language of the stars is the language of the body. Like a star, the anorexic burns fuel that isn't replenished; she is held together by her own gravity.
With luminous, lyrical prose, Binary Star is an impassioned account of a young woman struggling with anorexia and her long-distance, alcoholic boyfriend. On a road-trip circumnavigating the United States, they stumble into a book on veganarchism, and believe they've found a direction.
Binary Star is an intense, fast-moving saga of two young lovers and the culture that keeps them sick (or at least inundated with quick-fix solutions); a society that sells diet pills, sleeping pills, magazines that profile celebrities who lose weight or too much weight or put on weight, and books that pimp diet secrets or recipes for success. -
QUICK VIEW Frequencies Volume 4
a collection of essays by
Colin Asher, Nathan Knapp, Joshua Mohr, & more!
"It's like The Believer just up and said 'fuck it.'" —Brooklyn Based
Coming of age in the heady days of dial-up, family strife, plus a satirical interview with Shia LaBeouf. Frequencies Volume 4
a collection of essays by
Colin Asher, Nathan Knapp, Joshua Mohr, & more!
$ 7.50View full product details →$ 10.00 -
QUICK VIEW Made to Break
a novel by
D. Foy
A Best Book of 2014
"Reads like what we’d imagine a Stanley Kubrick rewrite of a script by Denis Johnson might look like." —Flavorwire
A melancholic and savage look at friendship. Made to Break
a novel by
D. Foy
$ 12.38View full product details →$ 16.50*One of the best books of 2014 —Flavorwire, Entropy Magazine
"Made to Break, D. Foy’s debut novel, snaps. Literary, cinematic... [Foy] is a writing school of one, and Made to Break ushers his literary energies into categorical existence."
—The Daily BeastTwo days before New Years, a pack of five friends—three men and two women—head to a remote cabin near Lake Tahoe to celebrate the holidays. They’ve been buddies forever, banded together by scrapes and squalor, their relationships defined by these wild times.
After a car accident leaves one friend sick and dying, and severe weather traps them at the cabin, there is nowhere to go, forcing them to finally and ultimately take stock and confront their past transgressions, considering what they mean to one another and themselves.
With some of the most luminous and purple prose flexed in recent memory, D. Foy is an incendiary new voice and Made to Break, a grand, episodic debut, redolent of the stark conscience of Denis Johnson and the spellbinding vision of Roberto Bolaño.
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QUICK VIEW Mira Corpora
a novel by
Jeff Jackson
L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist
A Best Book of 2013
"A piercing howl of a book."
—Slate
A story of redemption in the face of nightmarish odds. -
QUICK VIEW Damascus
a novel by
Joshua Mohr
"Damascus succeeds in conveying a big-hearted vision."
—Wall Street Journal
Gracefully tackling cancer, Iraq, and self-esteem, Damascus is Mohr's most accomplished work yet. -
QUICK VIEW Termite Parade
a novel by
Joshua Mohr
"A wry and unnerving story of
bad love gone rotten."
—New York Times Book Review
A mature second novel from the best-selling author of Some Things That Meant the World to Me. -
QUICK VIEW Some Things That Meant the World to Me
a novel by
Joshua Mohr
San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller.
Oprah Magazine Best Book of 2009.
Rhonda discovers a magical trap-door that forces him to confront his childhood. Some Things That Meant the World to Me
a novel by
Joshua Mohr
$ 11.63View full product details →$ 15.50 -
QUICK VIEW I Smile Back
a novel by
Amy Koppelman
"Explores with ruthless honesty a woman come undone."
—Bookslut
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