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  • STEPHEN FLORIDA
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    STEPHEN FLORIDA
    GABE HABASH
    This dark, gripping tale of an obsessed college wrestler is “one of the best novels of the year” (NPR). Stephen is in his final wrestling season at his North Dakota school, and he intends to win the divisional championship in his weight class. He thinks about little else, in fact. It will make up for the failures of the past. It will prove something to the world. It will be t...

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  • THE GIFT
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    THE GIFT
    BARBARA BROWNING
    A “winning and expansive novel” that “describes one woman’s intimacies with lovers, strangers, culture and ideas, and family and friends” (Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick). In the midst of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a writer and academic from New York named Barbara Andersen begins spamming people indiscriminately with ukulele covers of sentimental songs. A series of ...

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  • THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE
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    THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE
    EDWARD MCPHERSON
    What does it mean to think about Dallas in relationship to Dallas? In The History of the Future, McPherson reexamines American places and the space between history, experience, and myth. Private streets, racism, and the St. Louis World’s Fair; fracking for oil and digging for dinosaurs in North Dakota boomtowns—Americana slides into apocalypse in these essays, reveal...

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  • TELL ME HOW IT ENDS
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    TELL ME HOW IT ENDS
    VALERIA LUISELLI
    American Book Award Winner: A “moving, intimate” account of serving as a translator for undocumented children facing deportation (The New York Times Book Review). Nonfiction Finalist for the Kirkus PrizeFinalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Structured around the forty questions volunteer worker Valeria Luiselli translates from a court system form and ...

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  • CAMANCHACA
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    CAMANCHACA
    DIEGO ZÚÑIGA
    A long drive across Chile's Atacama desert, traversing "the worn-out puzzle" of a broken family—a young man's corrosive intimacy with his mother, the obtrusive cheer of his absentee father, his uncle's unexplained death—occupies the heart of this novel. Camanchaca is a low fog pushing in from the sea, its moisture sustaining a near-barren landscape. Camanchaca is the ...

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  • FISH IN EXILE
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    FISH IN EXILE
    VI KHI NAO
    Praise for Vi Khi Nao:"Here I was allowed to forget for a while that that is what books aspire to tell, so taken was I by more enthralling and mysterious pleasures." —Carole MasoHow do you bear the death of a child? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone's pomegranate seeds, and affairs with the neighbors. Fish in Exile spins unimaginable loss through classical a...

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  • PROBLEMS
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    PROBLEMS
    JADE SHARMA
    Dark, raw, and very funny, Problems introduces us to Maya, a young woman with a smart mouth, time to kill, and a heroin hobby that isn't much fun anymore. Maya's been able to get by in New York on her wits and a dead-end bookstore job for years, but when her husband leaves her and her favorite professor ends their affair, her barely-calibrated life descends into chaos, and she ...

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  • LAST DAYS
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    LAST DAYS
    BRIAN EVENSON
    "The deceptively simple prose keeps the book brisk and even gripping as its puzzles grow more craggy and complex. This is Evenson's singular, Poe-like gift: He writes with intelligence and a steady hand, even when his characters decide to lop their own limbs off."—Time Out New YorkWhen Kline is kidnapped by a dark sect that believes amputation brings you closer to God, he...

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  • FATHER OF LIES
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    FATHER OF LIES
    BRIAN EVENSON
    A fearless, scathing, and irresistible novel about madness, power, and the hypocrisy of religious institutions. Lay provost Eldon Fochs is a happily married father of four. Based on his disturbing dreams, he may also be a sex criminal. His therapist isn’t sure, and his church is determined to protect its reputation. Written from the perspectives of Fochs, his analyst Dr. Alex...

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  • A COLLAPSE OF HORSES
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    A COLLAPSE OF HORSES
    BRIAN EVENSON
    A provocative collection of literary horror stories by one of America’s most acclaimed and inventive writers whose unique prose “can be soul-shaking” (New Yorker). “Preoccupied with the uncanny, the unsettling, and the unknowable” (The Los Angeles Review), Evenson’s seventeen stories in this collection “evoke Kafka, some Poe, some Beckett, some Roald Dahl, and . . . Stephen ...

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  • UPRIGHT BEASTS
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    UPRIGHT BEASTS
    LINCOLN MICHEL
    “Dark, surreal, and imaginative, Lincoln Michel’s short story collection Upright Beasts is full of surprises at every turn.” —BuzzFeed Children go to school long after all the teachers have disappeared, a man manages an apartment complex of attempted suicides, and a couple navigates their relationship in the midst of a zombie attack. In these short stories, we are the upright...

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  • THE BLUE GIRL
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    THE BLUE GIRL
    LAURIE FOOS
    In this small lakeside town, mothers bake their secrets into moon pies they feed to a silent blue girl. Their daughters have secrets too—that they can't sleep, that they might sleep with a neighbor boy, that they know more than they let on. But when the daughters find the blue girl, everyone's carefully held silences shake loose.Laurie Foos is the author of five previous ...

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  • AMONG STRANGE VICTIMS
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    AMONG STRANGE VICTIMS
    DANIEL SALDAÑA PARÍS
    "Brief, brilliantly written, and kissed by a sense of the absurd....like a much lazier, Mexico City version of Dostoevsky's Underground Man."—John Powers, Fresh Air“Daniel Saldaña París knows how to talk about those other tragedies populating daily life: a boring, unwanted marriage; mind numbing office work; family secrets. He builds on those bricks of tediu...

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  • EMPTY POCKETS
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    EMPTY POCKETS
    DALE HERD
    A brilliant collection of “nineteen new and sixty-four previously published stories from one of America’s masters of the form” (Largehearted Boy). In this volume, readers will be drawn into Herd’s fertile literary cornucopia as his vivid prose captures the imagination. Written with brevity and stark economy of language, these short vignettes are a sampling of the American lands...

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  • THE DEEP ZOO
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    THE DEEP ZOO
    RIKKI DUCORNET
    “The veteran Port Townsend author explores love, violence, dreams, fairy tales and other things in her collection of essays.” ?The Seattle Times Within the writer’s life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cortázar a pair of amorous lions, and for an early Egyptian scribe the monarch butterfly that metamorphosed into the Key of Lif...

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  • THE RISE & FALL OF THE SCANDAMERICAN DOMESTIC
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    THE RISE & FALL OF THE SCANDAMERICAN DOMESTIC
    CHRISTOPHER MERKNER
    “A darkly funny set of stories that look closely at heartland American culture and reflect it back with devastating accuracy.” —Library Journal An enraged village gaslights unsuspecting vacationers. A young man delays an impending confession, fondling the nostrils of his mother’s pet pig. Sharp and uneasy, these tales, from an author whose work has been anthologized in O. Hen...

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  • AN IMPENETRABLE SCREEN OF PUREST SKY
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    AN IMPENETRABLE SCREEN OF PUREST SKY
    DAN BEACHY-QUICK
    “A first novel of sorts that promises to be an engaging study of memory, storytelling, and coming of age.” —Library Journal Daniel is pursued by stories. His father, in thrall to a myth, has disappeared; his mother and sister, too; and Lydia, his lover, leaves him and the novel he cannot finish for quantum mechanics, the place where theory tells tales about the real. And then t...

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  • LET THE DARK FLOWER BLOSSOM
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    LET THE DARK FLOWER BLOSSOM
    NORAH LABINER
    “An ambitious, poignant and sharp-tongued novel filled with secrets and ghosts, jealousy and love.” —Publishers Weekly Sheldon and Eloise Schell are twins, orphans, and the estranged college companions of the rich, scandalous, celebrated Roman Stone. Now Roman is dead, murdered with a pair of scissors in his living room, and Eloise and Sheldon must separately tease out the se...

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  • BOARDED WINDOWS
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    BOARDED WINDOWS
    DYLAN HICKS
    A bravura debut novel hailed as “a continually hilarious, hopes-dashed account of an indelible American character: the con man” (Greil Marcus). Wade Salem is a charismatic aesthete, drug dealer, and journeyman country musician. He’s also a complicated father figure to this novel’s narrator, whose cloudy childhood becomes both clearer and more confusing through Wade’s stories,...

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  • A PLACE WHERE THE SEA REMEMBERS
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    A PLACE WHERE THE SEA REMEMBERS
    SANDRA BENITEZ
    A universal portrait and an insider’s look at life in Latin America in this “vivid, graceful, tautly constructed” novel of love, anger, hope, and tragedy (Tim O’Brien). At the heart of this “profound . . . quietly stunning work that leaves soft tracks in the heart” is Chayo, the flower-seller, and her husband Candelario, the salad-maker, who finally may be blessed with the chil...

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  • LITTLE CASINO
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    LITTLE CASINO
    GILBERT SORRENTINO
    An episodic novel of postwar working-class Brooklyn that offers “sometimes dreamy, sometimes gritty glimpses into ordinary lives” (Publishers Weekly). In a novel composed of fragments of memory, Gilbert Sorrentino captures the unconventional nuances of a conventional world. A masterful collage of events is chained together by secrets and hidden truths that are almost accident...

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  • LUNAR FOLLIES
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    LUNAR FOLLIES
    GILBERT SORRENTINO
    “For decades, Gilbert Sorrentino has remained a unique figure in our literature. He reminds us that fiction lives because artists make it. . . . To the novel—everyone’s novel—Sorrentino brings honor, tradition and relentless passion.”—Don DeLillo“Possessing both the grace of James Joyce and the snap and crackle of Tom Wolfe, [Sorrentino...

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  • A STRANGE COMMONPLACE
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    A STRANGE COMMONPLACE
    GILBERT SORRENTINO
    “Sorrentino [is] a writer like no other. He’s learned, companionable, ribald, brave, mathematical, at once virtuosic and somehow without ego. Sorrentino’s books break free of the routine that inevitably accompanies traditional narrative and through a passionate renunciation shine with an unforgiving, yet cleansing, light.”—Jeffrey Eugenides“F...

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  • THE ABYSS OF HUMAN ILLUSION
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    THE ABYSS OF HUMAN ILLUSION
    GILBERT SORRENTINO
    “This fine, final work by Brooklyn native Sorrentino . . . finds a rueful charm in the ‘wretched clichés’ of ordinary failure.” —Publishers Weekly Titled after a line from Henry James, Gilbert Sorrentino’s final novel consists of fifty narrative set pieces full of savage humor and cathartic passion—an elegiac paean to the bleak world he so brilliantly captured in his long and s...

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  • KIND ONE
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    KIND ONE
    LAIRD HUNT
    A “profoundly imaginative, strikingly original, deeply moving” antebellum tale of two slave girls who take their white mistress into captivity (Kirkus Reviews). In “a novel that upends what we expect from slavery narratives,” teenage Ginny marries Linus Lancaster, her mother’s second cousin, and moves to his Kentucky pig farm ninety miles from nowhere (Roxane Gay). In the sha...

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  • HOLD IT 'TIL IT HURTS
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    HOLD IT 'TIL IT HURTS
    T. GERONIMO JOHNSON
    Finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award"The magnificence of Hold It 'Til It Hurts is not only in the prose and the story but also in the book's great big beating heart. These complex and compelling characters and the wizardry of Johnson's storytelling will dazzle and move you from first page to last. Novels don't teach us how to live but Hold It 'Til It Hurts will make you hus...

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  • HALF IN SHADE
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    HALF IN SHADE
    JUDITH KITCHEN
    “Judith Kitchen has written a book that is at once clear and accessible and at the same time insistently complex. Her effortlessly constructed hybrids make Half in Shade part memoir, part speculation, part essay, a demonstration of the interactive art of seeing, and finally for me, a beautifully sustained meditation. It is at that meditative level that the book’s pot...

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  • SLEIGHT
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    SLEIGHT
    KIRSTEN KASCHOCK
    A “powerfully original” novel that explores ideas of artistic performance, gender, and family in the shadow of an unthinkable tragedy (Kirkus Reviews). Sisters Lark and Clef have spent their lives honing their bodies for “sleight”—an interdisciplinary art form that combines elements of dance, architecture, acrobatics, and spoken word. Estranged for several years, the sister...

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  • GLASS
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    GLASS
    SAM SAVAGE
    A widow, aging and alone, tells her side of the story in this “hilarious, poetic, and heartbreaking” meditation on memory (Hazel & Wren). Tasked with writing the preface to a reissue of her late husband’s long-out-of-print novel, Edna also finds herself taking care of a vacationing neighbor’s pet rat, an aquarium of fish, and an apartment full of potted plants. Sitting at her t...

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  • NETSUKE
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    NETSUKE
    RIKKI DUCORNET
    This captivating descent into a psychoanalyst’s troubled, erotic, and harrowing inner world “tenaciously plums the tension between impulse and restraint” (American Book Review). Ruled by his hunger for erotic encounters, a deeply wounded psychoanalyst seduces both patients and strangers with equal heat. Driven to compartmentalize his life, the doctor attempts to order and con...

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