In this powerful memoir, former bicycle messenger and acclaimed author of The Immortal Class recounts
his difficult journey to literacy. A Comedy & A Tragedy is the story of one young man’s effort to teach himself to read. Complex and many-leveled, ...
A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the
American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economyNew York ...
Ricky Rice is a middling hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and
a haunted mind. A survivor of a suicide cult, he scrapes by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York, until one ...
In a sensational breach-of-promise suit, two wealthy social climbers are suing on behalf of their
beautiful daughter, Zillah. The defendant is Zillah’s alleged fiancé, brilliant young architect Killian Melville, who adamantly declares that he will not, cannot, marry her. Utterly ...
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls comes an eagerly anticipated story
collection exploring the dark corners of human experience. “Daddy’s ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a staggering ... . . . Cline is an astonishingly gifted ...
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly
comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world—featuring gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by Chelsea Cardinal. Fox 8 has ...
Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks’s wildly original debut novel, Getting Mother’s Body, follows pregnant, unmarried
Billy Beede and her down-and-out family in 1960s Texas as they search for the storied jewels buried—or were they?—with Billy’s fast-running, six-years-dead mother, ...
Deputy Coroner Clay Edison discovers that buried secrets can be deadly in this riveting thriller
from a father-son team of bestselling authors who write “brilliant, page-turning fiction” (Stephen King).An ID Book Club Selection Clay Edison has his hands full. He’s ...