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  • BRAZIL-MARU
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    BRAZIL-MARU
    KAREN TEI YAMASHITA
    Japanese immigrants in Brazil build an isolated communal settlement in the rain forest, prey to the charisma of one man. The story of a band of Japanese immigrants who arrive in Brazil in 1925 to carve a utopia out of the jungle. The dream of creating a new world, the cost of idealism, the symbiotic tie between a people and the land they settle, and the changes demanded by a ne...

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  • THROUGH THE ARC OF THE RAIN FOREST
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    THROUGH THE ARC OF THE RAIN FOREST
    KAREN TEI YAMASHITA
    A freewheeling black comedy bound up in cultural confusion, political insanity, and environmental catastrophe. A Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American ceo with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe rise to the heights of wealth and fame before arriving at disasters—both personal an...

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  • TROPIC OF ORANGE
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    TROPIC OF ORANGE
    KAREN TEI YAMASHITA
    An apocalypse of race, class, and culture fanned by the media and the harsh L.A. sun. Irreverently juggling magical realism, film noir, hip-hop, and chicanismo, Tropic of Orange takes place in a Los Angeles where the homeless, gangsters, infant organ entrepreneurs, and Hollywood collide on a stretch of the Harbor Freeway. Hemmed in by wildfires, it’s a symphony conducted from a...

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  • LETTERS TO MEMORY
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    LETTERS TO MEMORY
    KAREN TEI YAMASHITA
    This dive into the Yamashita family archive and Japanese internment runs a documentary impulse through filters that shimmer with imagination. Letters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. H...

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  • STEPHEN FLORIDA
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    STEPHEN FLORIDA
    GABE HABASH
    A troubled college wrestler in North Dakota falls in love and becomes increasingly unhinged during his final season. Foxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding, Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Profane, manic, and tipping into the uncanny, it’s a story of lo...

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  • THE GIFT
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    THE GIFT
    BARBARA BROWNING
    A sometimes funny, sometimes catastrophically sad story of performance art, ukuleles, dance, and our attempts and failures to make contact. In the midst of Occupy, Barbara Andersen begins spamming people indiscriminately with ukulele covers of sentimental songs. A series of inappropriate intimacies ensues, including an erotically charged correspondence and then collaboration wi...

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  • THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE
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    THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE
    EDWARD MCPHERSON
    A collection of long essays centered on American places where the past is erupting into the present in unexpected ways. 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...

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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
    On a near-silent drive across a desert with his father, a teenage boy puzzles out the mysteries of his family and himself in this acclaimed novel. As a fifteen-year-old boy takes a long drive across Chile’s Atacama desert with his father in a smoke-colored Ford Ranger, the teen simultaneously traverses “the worn-out puzzle” of his broken family—his corrosive intimacy with his...

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  • FISH IN EXILE
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    FISH IN EXILE
    VI KHI NAO
    A couple loses their child in this poetic and devastating novel in which grief reaches “enthralling and mysterious pleasures” (Carol Maso). A couple named Catholic and Ethos struggle with the loss of their child. How? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone’s pomegranate seeds, and affairs with the neighbors. Fish in Exile spins unimaginable loss through classical an...

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  • PROBLEMS
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    PROBLEMS
    JADE SHARMA
    A young woman’s life in New York City is upended by addiction in this debut novel “that is equal parts irreverent and hilarious, depressive and hopeful” (Bustle). Maya is a young woman with a smart mouth, time to kill, and a heroin hobby that isn’t much fun anymore. She’s been able to get by in New York on her wits and a dead-end bookstore job for years, but when her husband ...

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  • VOICE'S DAUGHTER OF A HEART YET TO BE BORN
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    VOICE'S DAUGHTER OF A HEART YET TO BE BORN
    ANNE WALDMAN
    Waldman appropriates the idea of Blake’s unborn spirit of Thel to explore artists’ and activists’ roles during the Anthropocene. Coming in the wake of her vast and magnificent epic (The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment), this volume brings Anne Waldman’s work into the more intimate, paradoxical folds of poetic (and prophetic) knowledge. This should not sugg...

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  • AMATEURS
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    AMATEURS
    DYLAN HICKS
    “A bright, perceptive story about friends trying with mixed results to wrestle with the pressures of adulthood.” —Los Angeles Times Archer is a semi-celebrated novelist and sex-toy heir. His best friend, John, is as earnest as Archer is feckless. John’s girlfriend, Sara, envies Archer’s writing career. And Sara’s roommate, Lucas, wishes he’d never lost his girlfriend to the m...

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  • LAST DAYS
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    LAST DAYS
    BRIAN EVENSON
    To find a cult leader’s killer, a former detective must literally give up his body in this award-winning work of literary horror—“A dark treat” (AV Club). Nominated for the Shirley Jackson award and winner of the ALA/RUSA Best Horror novel, Brian Evenson’s Last Days is an intense, profoundly unsettling down-the-rabbit-hole detective noir. Kline is a former detective who’s coo...

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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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  • THE OPEN CURTAIN
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    THE OPEN CURTAIN
    BRIAN EVENSON
    A taut literary thriller investigating the contemporary aftermath of Mormonism’s shrouded and violent past. When Rudd, a troubled teenager, embarks on a school research project, he runs across the secret Mormon ritual of blood sacrifice, and its role in a 1902 murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young. Along with his newly discovered half-brother, Rudd becomes swept up ...

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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
    Twenty-one genre-bending stories of bestial transformation, accidental murder, erotically-challenged dictatorship, and other tales of darkness, absurdity, and confusion. 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 ...

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  • THE BLUE GIRL
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    THE BLUE GIRL
    LAURIE FOOS
    A blue girl lives in the woods, eating secrets baked into moon pies, and shaking up a small lakeside town. 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 ...

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  • GENOA
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    GENOA
    PAUL METCALF
    A legendary work of literary wizardry in which the author reckons with Christopher Columbus, America, myth, and his great-grandfather Herman Melville. First published in 1965, Genoa is Paul Metcalf’s literary masterpiece in which he attempts to purge the burden of his relationship to his great-grandfather Herman Melville. In his signature polyphonic style, a storm-tossed Indi...

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  • AMONG STRANGE VICTIMS
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    AMONG STRANGE VICTIMS
    DANIEL SALDAÑA PARÍS
    “A greatly enjoyable and splendidly well-written suburban farce.” —Yuri Herrera Rodrigo likes his vacant lot, its resident chicken, and being left alone. But when passivity finds him accidentally married to Cecilia, he trades Mexico City for the sun-bleached desolation of his hometown and domestic life with Cecilia for the debauched company of a poet, a philosopher, and Micae...

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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
    Rikki Ducornet’s essays explore eros, violence, dreams, fairy tales, and art as alchemy—the Deep Zoo at the core of humanity. 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 Life. Ducornet names t...

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  • IT WILL END WITH US
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    IT WILL END WITH US
    SAM SAVAGE
    A slim but powerful poetic novel that tells the expansive story of a Southern woman’s memories of her mother and a vanishing world. It Will End With Us is Sam Savage’s latest deep dive into the mind and voice of a character, and his most personal work yet. With the raw materials of language and remembrance, Eve builds a memorial to the mother who raised her, emotionally abando...

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  • THE BALTIMORE ATROCITIES
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    THE BALTIMORE ATROCITIES
    JOHN DERMOT WOODS
    A whodunit without the who, this illustrated compendium of mayhem and misfortune spirals out from an investigation into two disappearances. The Baltimore Atrocities is a mordant, deadpan collection of more than one hundred murders, betrayals, heartbreaks, suicides, and bureaucratic snafus—each with a half-page illustration by the author—that tells the story of a couple who spen...

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  • YOU ANIMAL MACHINE
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    YOU ANIMAL MACHINE
    ELENI SIKELIANOS
    A memoir of Melena, five times married, mother, burlesque dancer, and “the hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails.” This is the tale of Melena, five times married, mother of three, burlesque dancer, and “the toughest, hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails.” Located in history and memory, the real and the imagined, her life cracks open questions of ide...

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  • THE DEVIL'S SNAKE CURVE
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    THE DEVIL'S SNAKE CURVE
    JOSH OSTERGAARD
    A humorous, historical, and hirsute miscellany that’s the baseball book Howard Zinn would have written, if he hated the Yankees. The Devil’s Snake Curve offers an alternative American history, in which colonialism, jingoism, capitalism, and faith are represented by baseball. Personal and political, it twines Japanese internment camps with the Yankees; Walmart with the Kansas Ci...

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  • THE RISE & FALL OF THE SCANDAMERICAN DOMESTIC
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    THE RISE & FALL OF THE SCANDAMERICAN DOMESTIC
    CHRISTOPHER MERKNER
    Shirley Jackson for the contemporary Midwest, where the ties of family and community intersect darkly with suburban American life. In these stories, an enraged village gaslights unsuspecting vacationers and a young man delays an impending confession, fondling the nostrils of his mother’s pet pig. Sharp and uneasy, for these inheritors of tradition, that which binds them most cl...

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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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