The Family Fang
by Kevin Wilson
(Ecco)
An Instant New York Times Bestseller and Instant Indie Bestseller, an Amazon.com Best Book of the Month, an Indie Next Pick, and a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick
"Totally weird, and pretty wonderful... manages to be brainy without sacrificing heart." " —O: The Oprah Magazine
"Mr. Wilson... has created a memorable shorthand for describing parent-child deceptions and for ways in which creative art and destructive behavior intersect."—The New York Times
Precious Objects
by Alicia Oltuski
(Scribner)
"I am unaware of a book that so intimately captures the strange and strangely beguiling place in which [diamonds] are bought and sold."—The Washington Post
"[Alicia Oltuski] writes most fascinatingly about the strange characters that clutter the streets." —The New York Post
A Good Hard Look
by Ann Napolitano
(Penguin Press)
"An absorbing, old-fashioned tale about how, as in Flannery O'Connor's stories, 'Grace changes a person... And change is painful.'" —The Washington Post
"Ann Napolitano creates a fictional version of the life of the acclaimed Southern writer that is as vibrantly colorful as the peacocks raised on the O'Connor family farm in Milledgeville, Georgia."—O: The Oprah Magazine
America Pacifica
by Anna North
(Little, Brown & Co.)
"Darcy is a hero in the true sense of the word, and this is a story about her heroics, a plot propelled almost entirely by her courageousness, her persistence - an adventure story with a literary personality." —The Rumpus
"An entertaining, stylishly written doomsday novel." —Kirkus
Long Drive Home
by Will Allison
(Free Press)
An Instant New York Times Bestseller and Publisher's Weekly Bestseller
"A gripping morality tale that raises questions about race, conscience and the responsibilities of parenthood." —People Magazine
"While wondering whether Glen will get arrested is what keeps you turning pages, Allison's eye for the details of marriage and fatherhood, and his deconstruction of what can happen when a good guy makes one false move, are what will break your heart." —O: The Oprah Magazine
The Paris Wife
by Paula McLain
(Ballantine)
A New York Times Bestseller and a #1 Indie Next Pick
"By making the ordinary come to life, McLain has written a beautiful portrait of being in Paris in the glittering 1920s -- as a wife and one's own woman." —Entertainment Weekly
The Wolves of Andover
by Kathleen Kent
(Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown & Co.)
"Kent has managed a muscular genre exercise; her narrative moves so swiftly that its intermittent moments of genuine pity and terror catch you with your guard down." —The New York Times Book Review
City of Veils
by Zoë Ferraris
(Little, Brown & Co.)
"Stellar...a searing portrait of the religious and cultural veils that separate Muslim women from the modern world." —Publisher's Weekly (starred review)
"[Ferraris] expertly weaves an excellent whodunnit into an engrossing portrait of a vibrant society, full of sexual, religious, political and moral contradictions. " —The Times (UK)
The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes
by Randi Davenport
(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
"[An] unforgettable memoir of a shattered family, a mother's abiding love, and the frightening permutations of the human mind.—Elle Magazine
"A heartbreaking, disturbing, and truly courageous story of one mother's fight to save her son." —Alice Hoffman
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
(Random House)
A New York Times Bestseller, a #1 Indie Next Pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick, and an Amazon Best Book of the Month
"A beautiful little love story...Deserves all available prizes." —The New York Times Book Review
"With her crisp wit and gentle insight, Simonson...knows just what delicious disruption romance can introduce to a well-settled life." —The Washington Post
The House of Tomorrow
by Peter Bognanni
(Amy Einhorn Books)
A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick, an Indie Next Pick, and a Borders Original Voices Selection
"I adore this book, not only for its ability to love our ludicrous hearts, but also for the way it makes dividing questions about whether good literature comes from the heart or the mind seem like nonsense." —Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances
"Delightful...Bognanni captures that breath we take before we jump out into our life, the moment when, as he puts it, we 'brace for the noise.'" —Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight
by Gina Ochsner
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Longlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction, a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
"[Ochsner] manages...to capture our sundry human moments and make raw and unforgettable music of them" —Colum McCann, National Book Award winning author of Let the Great World Spin
Ochsner's characters have an Atlas-like ability to hold up their own blackened piece of sky. And it's the unremarkable tremors of daily life that gradually shake off the mud to reveal something infinite and hopeful...Ochsner is a true artist.—The Times (UK)
Summer We Fell Apart
by Robin Antalek
(Harper Perennial)
"A preoccupied playwright father and a cult-actress mother are the stars of the Haas family in Antalek's well-crafted and cunning debut novel ... a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and to the importance of family ties regardless of family history, making this an endearing and easy-to-relate-to dysfunctional family drama." —Publisher's Weekly
"Antalek captures the love-hate sibling dynamic perfectly in this absorbing novel, and she conveys an understanding that, while family is vital, you can't ever truly expect them to be what you want them to be." —BookPage
The Unnamed
by Joshua Ferris
(Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown & Co.)
A #1 Indie Next Pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
"The Unnamed is an accomplished and daring work by a writer just now realizing what he is capable of creating...The Unnamed lays bare the fabric of families, the lengths people will go for the ones they love and the lack of value we place on the simple ability to pause, to stop and to reconsider all the steps we've made." —The LA Times
"At once riveting, horrifying and deeply sad, "The Unnamed," like Tim's feet, moves with a propulsion all its own. This is fiction with the force of an avalanche, snowballing unstoppably until it finally comes to rest..."—San Francisco Chronicle
A Friend of the Family
by Lauren Grodstein
(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
An Indie Next Pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
"...such an incisive diagnosis of aspirational America that someone should hand out copies at Little League games and ballet recitals." —The Washington Post
"Unfolds with suspense worthy of Hitchcock...[Grodstein] is a terrific storyteller and an even better ventriloquist. She beautifully captures Pete's sly self-deceptions...Ultimately, though, this is less a novel about one imperfect citizen than a sharp account of the status-driven suburban culture that turned him into a monster of conformity." —The New York Times Book Review
A Disobedient Girl
by Ru Freeman
(Atria Books/Simon & Schuster.)
"Evocative and moving. Ru Freeman is a marvelous storyteller who sees deeply into the complex layers of compassion and love, of sorrow and betrayal. An amazing first novel." —Ursula Hegi, New York Times bestselling author of The Worst Thing I've Done and Stones From the River
"A thrilling debut: Ru Freeman has given us a wonderfully bold and determined protagonist in a richly drawn, complex, fascinating story. I loved it." —Lynn Freed
"A heartbreaking and ultimately uplifting novel that celebrates our ability to transcend tragedy." —Rishi Reddi
The Heretic's Daughter
by Kathleen Kent
(Little, Brown & Co.)
A National Bestseller
"Kent excels at showing both the horrors and petty injustices the imprisoned endured...an eminently readable novel, and a tribute to a woman who held steadfastly to the courage of her convictions." —Christian Science Monitor
"It is the fundamental outrageousness of these tragic events that Kathleen Kent portrays to great effect in her debut novel, The Heretic's Daughter...Kent tells a heart-wrenching story of family love and sacrifice. Its warnings about the dire consequences of intolerance and fundamentalism still have meaning in the modern world." —USA Today
Finding Nouf
by Zoë Ferraris
(Houghton Mifflin)
Winner of the LA Times Award for First Fiction, Winner of an ALA Alex Award, A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller, A Book Sense Pick, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick.
"[An] imaginative and closely observed murder mystery set in the Saudi port town of Jeddah … a literary detective novel that balances the pleasure of plot with finely milled prose." —San Francisco Chronicle
"What's remarkable about this debut is that its mystery takes place within a culture that has itself largely been under wraps….it's the individual journeys of Nayir and Katya, who abide by their society's strictures even as they are frustrated by them, that elevate Finding Nouf to a larger human drama." —Entertainment Weekly