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At the Edge of the Woods
a novel by
Kathryn Bromwich
A Best Book of 2023
"An accomplished, unsettling debut... of what it means to inhabit a female body but to reject femininity, and to feel a connection with the natural world that embodies both awe and terror. In this, its themes could not be more timely."
āStephanie Merritt,
The Guardian
With assurance and remarkable dexterity, Kathryn Bromwichās masterful debut novel is a rich, gorgeously descriptive account of a woman hiding from old ghosts and new in the Italian Alps, while rekindling her own sense of self through nature.
At the Edge of the Woods
a novel by
Kathryn Bromwich
$ 9.99View full product details →$ 10.99"Bromwich infects the senses with dread and wicked insight from the first page to the lastāthis is a stunning experience not to be missed."
āMaryse Meijer, author of The Seventh MansionWith assurance and remarkable dexterity, Kathryn Bromwichās masterful debut novel is a rich, gorgeously descriptive account of a woman hiding from old ghosts and new in the Italian Alps, while rekindling her own sense of self through nature.
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Crapalachia New Classics Edition
a memoir by
Scott McClanahan
A Best Book of 2013
"[McClanahan] aims to
lasso the moon."
āNew York Times Book Review
An endearing and haunting coming-of-age story that announces McClanahan as a resounding talent. Coming Soon!Crapalachia New Classics Edition
a memoir by
Scott McClanahan
$ 8.99View full product details →$ 10.00*One of the Best Books of 2013 āThe Millions, Flavorwire, Dazed & Confused, The L Magazine, Time Out Chicago
"McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails. [McClanahan] aims to lasso the moon... He is not a writer of half-measures. The man has purpose. This is his symphony, every note designed to resonate, to linger."
āAllison Glock, New York Times Book ReviewSynopsis
Crapalachia is a portrait of Scott McClanahanās formative years, coming of age in rural West Virginia, during a stretch of time where he was deeply influenced by his Grandma Ruby and Uncle Nathan, who suffered from cerebral palsy.
Peopled by colorful characters and their quirky stories, Crapalachia interweaves oral folklore and area history, providing an ambitious and powerful snapshot of overlooked Americana.
Beyond the artistry, there is an optimism, a genuine love for people and the past and memories. Even more, there is a grasp to bridge the disconnect between reader and writer, for McClanahanās stories to bind us closer to one another. -
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I Sing to Use the Waiting
a collection of essays by
Zachary Pace
January 2024!
"These essays span much more than women singers... How beautiful for a bookās form to echo whatās at the heart of this collection: The intersection of pop culture, social issues, and personal experience make up Paceās claiming of their voice."
āRachel LeĆ³n, Split Lip Magazine
With remarkable grace, candor, and a poetās ear for prose, Zachary Pace recounts the women singers ā from Cat Power to Madonna, Kim Gordon to Rihanna ā who shaped them as a young person coming-of-age in rural New York, first discovering their own queer voice.
I Sing to Use the Waiting
a collection of essays by
Zachary Pace
$ 9.99View full product details →$ 10.99With remarkable grace, candor, and a poetās ear for prose, Zachary Pace recounts the women singers ā from Cat Power to Madonna, Kim Gordon to Rihanna ā who shaped them as a young person coming-of-age in rural New York, first discovering their own queer voice.
With remarkable grace, candor, and a poetās ear for prose, Zachary Pace recounts the women singers ā from Cat Power to Madonna, Kim Gordon to Rihanna ā who shaped them as a young person coming-of-age in rural New York, first discovering their own queer voice.
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Landscapes
a novel by
Christine Lai
A Best Book of 2023
"A rich meditation on the burden of remembrance, the ruins of the past, and the ruins that climate crisis will soon bring us, Landscapes is a tightly woven debut that travels easily between epistles, point of view shifts, and art criticism... As much as Landscapes is about destruction and decay, it is equally about picking up the ruins and rebuilding."
āChristina Wood, Full Stop
Recalling the works of Rachel Cusk and Kazuo Ishiguro, Landscapes is an evocative reinvention of the pastoral and the country house novel for our age of catastrophe, and announces the arrival of an extraordinarily gifted new writer.
Landscapes
a novel by
Christine Lai
$ 9.99View full product details →$ 10.99An entrancing and prismatic debut novel by Christine Lai, set in a near future fraught with ecological collapse, Landscapes brilliantly explores memory, empathy, preservation, and art as an instrument for recollection and renewal.
Recalling the works of Rachel Cusk and Kazuo Ishiguro, Landscapes is an evocative reinvention of the pastoral and the country house novel for our age of catastrophe, and announces the arrival of an extraordinarily gifted new writer.
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Pages of Mourning
a novel by
Diego Gerard Morrison
May 2024!
"Very funny and very sad and very, very smart. Unafraid to make his fiction work on and around questions of unambiguous gravity, Morrison never forgets the importance, indeed the power, in the endeavor of play."
āLaird Hunt, author of Zorrie
Pages of Mourning is a stunning achievement, a pioneering and inventive novel that confronts family history, creativity, Magical Realism, and the impact of violence from Mexicoās drug war, by a magnificent new talent in Diego Gerard Morrison.
Pages of Mourning
a novel by
Diego Gerard Morrison
$ 9.99View full product details →$ 10.99A daring, captivating, darkly funny novel that grapples with uncertainty and loss in a land of violence and superstition, while questioning whether Magical Realism as a genre is capable of confronting the brutal dissonance of a country that awaits the return of the missing while not wholly acknowledging their death.
Pages of Mourning is a stunning achievement, a pioneering and inventive novel that confronts family history, creativity, Magical Realism, and the impact of violence from Mexicoās drug war, by a magnificent new talent in Diego Gerard Morrison.
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Personal Score
a collection of essays by
Ellen van Neerven
April 2024!
"Demonstrates a new way to write toward Indigenous freedom. Personal Score hums with the vitality and intelligence of a definitive text."
āBilly-Ray Belcourt
Fierce, original, and also abundantly tender, Personal Score is a ground-breaking book that demonstrates van Neervenās unrivalled talent and courage.
Personal Score
a collection of essays by
Ellen van Neerven
$ 9.99View full product details →$ 10.99Fierce, original, and also abundantly tender, Personal Score is a ground-breaking book that demonstrates van Neervenās unrivalled talent and courage.
Fierce, original, and also abundantly tender, Personal Score is a ground-breaking book that demonstrates van Neervenās unrivalled talent and courage.
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The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos
a novel by
Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya
"Thereās a warmth and solemnity to Gregorioās voice, as he reflects on death and strain, and the almost inarticulable woe of being an immigrant in the States post-2016. Restrepo Montoya, with poignancy, precision, and subtle force, explores the choices that lead us to the places we end up, and what we carry with us in memory and in action."
āNina MacLaughlin, Boston Globe
Entrancing and sentimental, told with wit and sharp insight, The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos examines the joys and traumas of the Latinx American experience through the lens of a young man awakening to the nuances of identity, love, colonization, and home.
The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos
a novel by
Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya
$ 9.99View full product details →$ 10.99"Prescient and timeless, dealing with the inseparability of life and decay, this story, through it all, allowed me to sit deeply with love, family, and forgiveness. Pay attention, a refreshingly honest and singular voice has arrived."
āDantiel W. Moniz, author of Milk Blood HeatEntrancing and sentimental, told with wit and sharp insight, The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos examines the joys and traumas of the Latinx American experience through the lens of a young man awakening to the nuances of identity, love, colonization, and home.
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The Red-Headed Pilgrim
a novel by
Kevin Maloney
A Best Book of 2023
"Somewhere between the hysterical realism of Zadie Smith and the sexy, witty misfits of a Tom Robbins novel."
āBrock Kingsley, Chicago Review of Books
Provocative, poignant, and resoundingly hilarious, The Red-Headed Pilgrim is the tragicomic tale of an anxious red-head and his sordid pursuit of enlightenment and pleasure (not necessarily in that order).
The Red-Headed Pilgrim
a novel by
Kevin Maloney
$ 8.99View full product details →$ 9.99"The Red-Headed Pilgrim is a revelation that achieves starry dynamo-level energy from the jump. Maloney's prose is sharp and vivid, full of trippy precision, and his story is funny, wild, painful and wise."
āSam Lipsyte, author of Hark and The AskThe Red-Headed Pilgrim is an irresistible novel of misadventure and new beginnings, of wanderlust and maybe bad decisions, of parenthood and divorce, and of the heartfelt truths we unearth when we least expect it.
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Us Fools
a novel by
Nora Lange
September 2024!
"Past and present seep and bleed in this assured, richly ruminative, darkly funny debut. With exacting lyricism, Nora Lange chronicles the tumult and chaotic love between two unforgettable sisters. Us Fools is a marvel of brutal wit and wild charmāa brilliant, sweeping chronicle of a singular American family."
āKimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light
A tragicomic, intimate American story of two precocious sisters coming of age during the Midwestern farm crisis of the 1980s. Us Fools
a novel by
Nora Lange
$ 9.99View full product details →$ 10.99With her debut novel, Nora Lange has crafted a rambunctious, ambitious, and heart-rending portrait of two idiosyncratic sisters, determined to persevere despite the worst that capitalism and their circumstances has to throw at them.
A tragicomic, intimate American story of two precocious sisters coming of age during the Midwestern farm crisis of the 1980s.