Gold Fame Citrus: A Novel

In los angeles’ laurel canyon, once a poster child for the bureau of Conservation and its enemies, two young Mojavs—Luz, and Ray, a veteran of the “forever war” turned surfer—squat in a starlet’s abandoned mansion. But when they cross paths with a mysterious child, the thirst for a better future begins.

Ghosting after them are rumors of a visionary dowser—a diviner for water—and his followers, who whispers say have formed a colony at the edge of a mysterious sea of dunes. The couple’s fragile love somehow blooms in this arid place, and for the moment, it seems enough. In 2012, claire vaye watkins’s story collection, Battleborn, swept nearly every award for short fiction.

They head east, bandits and the brutal, a route strewn with danger: sinkholes and patrolling authorities, omnipresent sun. Holdouts, they subsist on rationed cola and whatever they can loot, scavenge, and improvise. Now this young writer, returns with a first novel that harnesses the sweeping vision and deep heart that made her debut so arresting to a love story set in a devastatingly imagined near future: Unrelenting drought has transfigured Southern California into a surreal, widely heralded as a once-in-a-generation talent, phantasmagoric landscape.

Immensely moving, the double-edged power of our most cherished relationships, Watkins’s novel explores the myths we believe about others and tell about ourselves, profoundly disquieting, and mind-blowingly original, and the shape of hope in a precarious future that may be our own. From the Hardcover edition.

Named a best book of the year by the washington post, book riot, powells, npr, men's journal, ploughshares, huffington post, the Atlantic, San Francisco Chronicle, LA Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Refinery 29, Lit Hub,  Vanity Fair, BookPage and Kirkus Reviews The much-anticipated first novel from a Story Prize-winning “5 Under 35” fiction writer.

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Harvest: A Novel

Short-listed for the man booker prizea christian science monitor best book of the year On the morning after harvest, the inhabitants of a remote English village awaken looking forward to a hard-earned day of rest and feasting at their landowner's table. In the minds of the wary villagers a mere coincidence of events appears to be unlikely, with violent confrontation looming as the unavoidable outcome.

The second column rises from the wooded edge of the village, sent up by newcomers to announce their presence. Meanwhile, another newcomer has recently been spotted taking careful notes and making drawings of the land. But the sky is marred by two conspicuous columns of smoke, replacing pleasurable anticipation with alarm and suspicion.

One smoke column is the result of an overnight fire that has damaged the master's outbuildings. His tale is timeless and unsettling,  framed by a beautifully evoked world that will linger in your memory long after you finish reading. It is his presence more than any other that will threaten the village's entire way of life.

In effortless and tender prose, Jim Crace details the unraveling of a pastoral idyll in the wake of economic progress.


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The Animators: A Novel

Sharon and mel will stay with me for a very long time. Cynthia d’aprix sweeney, kirkus reviews, author of the nestone of the best debut novels of the year—entertainment weeklyone OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—NPR, BookPageShe was the first person to see me as I had always wanted to be seen. Now, after a decade of striving, the two are finally celebrating the release of their first full-length feature, which transforms Mel’s difficult childhood into a provocative and visually daring work of art.

The toast of the indie film scene, they stand at the cusp of making it big. A wildly original novel that pulses with heart and truth. A funny, and trauma, heartbreaking novel of friendship, art, The Animators is about the secrets we keep and the burdens we shed on the road to adulthood. Drawing: mel, to understand her tumultuous past, and Sharon, to lose herself altogether.

During a trip to sharon’s home state of kentucky, and long-buried resentments rise to the surface, charismatic childhood best friend, Teddy—reenters her life, the only other partner she has ever truly known—her troubled, hastening a reckoning no one sees coming. Suffused with humor, tragedy and deep insights about art and friendship.

People“A stunning debut. Variety “a compulsively readable portrait of women as incandescent artists and intimate collaborators. Elle.


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Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

Based on an athabascan indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying.

Le Guin. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, sweetness, friendship, community, and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, and wisdom" Ursula K.

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The Wolf Road: A Novel

He’s a killer. The wolf road is an intimate cat-and-mouse tale of revenge and redemption, played out against a vast, unforgiving landscape—told by an indomitable young heroine fighting to escape her past and rejoin humanity. Elka barely remembers a time before she knew Trapper. She was just seven years old, wandering lost and hungry in the wilderness, when the solitary hunter took her in.

Armed with nothing but her knife and the hard lessons Trapper’s drilled into her, Elka flees into the frozen north in search of her real parents. And now that elka knows the truth, she may be his next victim. But the man elka thought she knew has been harboring a terrible secret. If she’s going to survive, elka will have to turn and confront not just him, but the truth about the dark road she’s been set on.

In the years since then, he’s taught her how to survive in this desolate land where civilization has been destroyed and men are at the mercy of the elements and each other. A monster. But judging by the trail of blood dogging her footsteps, she hasn’t left Trapper behind—and he won’t be letting his little girl go without a fight.

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Dept. of Speculation Vintage Contemporaries

Of speculation” was their code name for all the thrilling uncertainties that lay ahead. Dept. Then they got married, had a child and navigated the familiar calamities of family life—a colicky baby, a faltering relationship, stalled ambitions. In language that shimmers with rage and longing and wit, Offill has created a brilliantly suspenseful love story—a novel to read in one sitting, even as its piercing meditations linger long after the last page.

One of the 10 best books of the year - the new york times book reviewa best book of the Year: The New Yorker, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Boston Globe, Vogue. Com, buzzfeedin the beginning, Electric Literature, it was easy to imagine their future. When their marriage reaches a sudden breaking point, the wife tries to retrace the steps that have led them to this place, invoking everything from Kafka to the Stoics to doomed Russian cosmonauts as she analyzes what is lost and what remains.

They were young and giddy, sure of themselves and of their love for each other.


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Tenth of December: Stories

No one writes more powerfully than George Saunders about the lost, the unlucky, the disenfranchised. Michiko kakutani, the new york times   “Saunders’s startling, dreamlike stories leave you feeling newly awakened to the world. People   “it’s no exaggeration to say that short story master George Saunders helped change the trajectory of American fiction.

The wall street journal   george saunders was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by tiME MAGAZINEFrom the Hardcover edition. Writing brilliantly and profoundly about class, work, love, sex, loss, despair, and war, Saunders cuts to the core of the contemporary experience. These stories take on the big questions and explore the fault lines of our own morality, delving into the questions of what makes us good and what makes us human.

This eclectic collection never ceases to delight with its at times absurd, surreal, and darkly humorous look at very serious subjects. National book award finalist • named one of the ten best books of the year by the new york times book reviewnamed one of the best books of the year by people • the new york times magazine • npr • entertainment weekly • new york • the telegraph • buzzfeed • kirkus Reviews • BookPage • Shelf AwarenessOne of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, accessible, and Tenth of December is his most honest, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and moving collection yet.

. A hapless, to kill—the unforgettable characters that populate the pages of tenth of december are vividly and lovingly infused with Saunders’s signature blend of exuberant prose, to love, deep humanity, deluded owner of an antiques store; two mothers struggling to do the right thing; a teenage girl whose idealism is challenged by a brutal brush with reality; a man tormented by a series of pharmaceutical experiments that force him to lust, and stylistic innovation.




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The Queen of the Night

But who betrayed her? with “epic sweep, and haunting details, ”** alexander Chee shares Lilliet’s cunning transformation from circus rider to courtesan to legendary soprano, gorgeous language, retracing the path that led to the role that could secure her reputation—or destroy her with the secrets it reveals.

If lilliet berne were a man, she might have been what nineteenth-century novels would call a swashbuckler: the kind of destiny-courting, death-defying character who finds intrigue and peril and somehow, always, a fantastic pair of pantaloons around every corner. Entertainment Weekly     . She became a sensation of the Paris Opera, with every accolade but an original role—her chance at immortality.

National bestsellernew york times book review editors’ choice | an indie next picka best book of the Year from NPR, Time Out, Self, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Jezebel, The Portland Mercury, Buzzfeed, Esquire, Electric Literature, and Entropy Magazine“It just sounds terrific. It sounds like opera.

Joan acocella, bawdy, the new Yorker “Sprawling, soaring, and plotted like a fine embroidery. Scott simon, npR  “Dazzling. Wall street journal | “A brilliant performance. Washington post   “Sweeping, richly detailed. People | “Masterful.


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Everything Matters!: A Novel

. A tour de force of storytelling, everything Matters! is a genre-bending potpourri of alternative history, sci-fi, and the great American tale in the tradition of John Irving and Margaret Atwood. He survives the inevitable, apt comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and writes in a tenderly mordant voice all his own.

Janet maslin, junior thibodeau grows up in rural Maine in a time of Atari, The New York Times In this novel rich in character, baseball cards, pop Catholicism, and cocaine. He also knows something no one else knows-neither his exalted parents, nor his baseball-savant brother, nor the love of his life she doesn't believe him anyway: The world will end when he is thirty-six.

. While junior searches for meaning in a doomed world, lost love, blinding romance, his loved ones tell an all-American family saga of fathers and sons, and reconciliation-culminating in one final triumph that reconfigures the universe. Startlingly talented.


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The Bean Trees: A Novel

The bean trees is bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver’s first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, and together, arizona, but inherits a 3-year-old native-American little girl named Turtle along the way, from Oklahoma to Tucson, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West.

Written with humor and pathos, this highly praised novel focuses on love and friendship, out of money and seemingly out of options, abandonment and belonging as Taylor, settles in dusty Tucson and begins working at Jesus Is Lord Used Tires while trying to make a life for herself and Turtle. The author of such bestsellers as the lacuna, and flight Behavior, The Poinsonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver has been hailed for her striking imagery and clear dialogue, and this is the novel that kicked off her remarkable literary career.

This edition includes a P. S. Section with additional insights from the author, background material, suggestions for further reading, and more.


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Get in Trouble: Stories

Praise for get in Trouble“Ridiculously brilliant. These are just some of the talismans of an imagination as capacious and as full of wonder as that of any writer today. These stories make you laugh while staring into the void. The boston globe “when it comes to literary magic, affecting, surprising, Link is the real deal: clever, fluid and funny.

San francisco Chronicle. In “i can see right through you, ” a middle-aged movie star makes a disturbing trip to the Florida swamp where his former on- and off-screen love interest is shooting a ghost-hunting reality show. Finalist for the pulitzer prize • national bestseller • a bewitching story collection from a writer hailed as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” Michael Chabon and “a national treasure” Neil Gaiman.

Named one of the best books of the year bybookpage • buzzfeed • chicago tribune • kirkus reviews • npr • san francisco chronicle • slate • time • Toronto Star • The Washington PostShe has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” and by Neil Gaiman as “a national treasure.

Now kelly link’s eagerly awaited new collection—her first for adult readers in a decade—proves indelibly that this bewitchingly original writer is among the finest we have. The nine exquisite examples in this collection show her in full command of her formidable powers. In get in trouble, this one-of-a-kind talent expands the boundaries of what short fiction can do.

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