From the New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River: "A stunningly sad and heroically hopeful tale…This is a beautiful novel about relationships of the most makeshift kind." O, The Oprah Magazine
Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn’t left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, seventeen-year-old Kel Keller navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school and pins his hopes on what seems like a promising baseball career. The link between this unlikely pair is Kel’s mother, Charlene, a former student of Arthur’s. Told with warmth and intelligence through Arthur and Kel’s own quirky and lovable voices, Heft is the story of two improbable heroes whose connection transforms both their lives.
A vibrant piece of fiction, pulsating with events and emotions…Seems destined to be read a
hundred years from now. Martin Rubin, Los Angeles TimesEach house on Pepys Road, an ordinary street in London, has seen its fair share of first ...
New York Times Editor's ChoiceTwenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded
house outside Sacramento, surviving on the family's trust fund—money that his aunt, Helen, and seventeen-year-old cousin, Jennifer, are determined to get their hands on. A ...
“Dry Fire captures the heat and streets of North Florida with admirable precision. The character
of cop Abigail Fitzpatrick is a convincing mix of someone who is absolutely jaded and yet capable of utter astonishment. If Edna Buchanan has a ...
A master storyteller delivers an historical novel with a twist-what will become of a modern
American woman in Cromwell's England? Returning home to West Virginia after her beloved Uncle John's death, Lydde finds that he has left her an odd ...
“Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s debut is a beautifully textured novel, befitting the story of an artist.”
Washington PostWritten in startlingly beautiful prose, Harmless Like You is set across New York, Connecticut, and Berlin. At its heart is Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting ...
A love affair based on a case of mistaken identity, set in an impeccable re-creation
of nineteenth-century London. Lord Byron was the greatest writer and most notorious, scandalous lover of his agean irresistible attraction for a sheltered, bookish, and passionate ...
In 1956, Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a desirable
Boston suburb. Ava is beautiful, divorced, Jewish, and a working mom. She finds her neighbors less than welcoming. Lewis yearns for his absent father, befriending ...
Lydia Millet’s debut novel, first published in 1996, is an explosive satire that scorches our
culture’s monstrous men and institutions.In a claustrophobic, surreal California house, teenager Estée Kraft lives with her domineering father, whose obsession with insect taxonomy bleeds into ...