"[A] noir delight of a novel . . . . Evil Genius is deceptively light on its feet, skittering across the page to deliver its scorpion sting.”— New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)A Recommended Read from: Alta * Bustle * Electric Literature * Forbes * LitHub * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * New York Times * People * VultureIt’s 1974 and San Francisco is full of mystery and menace. Nineteen-year-old Cel...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION"Claire Oshetsky’s novel is a marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying." —Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World BehindAn exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremisTiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. “You think this baby is going to be like you, but it’s not like you at all,” she warn...

WINNER OF THE KAFKA PRIZE FOR FICTIONA wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life—from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire OshetskyMargaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died.No one blames Margaret. Not in so many words. Her mother insists to...

"[A] noir delight of a novel . . . . Evil Genius is deceptively light on its feet, skittering across the page to deliver its scorpion sting.”— New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)A Recommended Read from: Alta * Bustle * Electric Literature * Forbes * LitHub * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * New York Times * People * VultureIt’s 1974 and San Francisco is full of mystery and menace. Nineteen-year-old Cel...

WINNER OF THE KAFKA PRIZE FOR FICTIONA wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life—from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire OshetskyMargaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died.No one blames Margaret. Not in so...

""Claire Oshetsky’s novel is a marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying."" —Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World BehindAn exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremisTiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. “You think this baby is going to be like you, but it’s not like you at all,” she warns him. “This baby is an owl-baby.”When Chouette is born small and bro...

“I've loved Maggie Thrash's work for years, and Rainbow Black is going to set so many new hearts aflame—murder, intrigue, queer love, dark humor AND satanic panic? Welcome to the Maggie Thrash Fan Club, world!”—Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time TomorrowFor readers of Donna Tartt and Ottessa Moshfegh comes a brilliant, deliriously entertaining novel from the acclaimed author of Honor Girl....

Wild meets The Wife Between Us in this page-turning thriller narrated by Audie Award winner Sophie Amoss, set in Maine's Hundred Mile Wilderness—the treacherous final stretch of the storied Appalachian Trail—an addictive tale of passion, betrayal, control, and what it means to survive.Raised by a doomsday prepper and hardened by the startup world, Emma Sharp has learned how to endure—especially in her marriage to Logan Grant, a ch...

**“The Blueprint is an astounding work, an unflinching portrait of misogyny and racism in a speculative world terrifyingly close to our own. Rae Giana Rashad chronicles the generational ghosts of womanhood, and how we understand ourselves through the stories of those we come from, in a way I’ve never read before. A remarkable new talent, and a timeless literary voice.”**—Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push

A glittering, bold, darkly funny novel about two sisters—one in New York, one in Singapore—who are bound by an ancient secretSisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads a sheltered, moneyed life as the picture-perfect wife of a conservative politician in Singapore. Emerald is a nihilistic sugar baby in New York, living from whim to whim and using her charms to make ends meet. But they share a secret: once, they were snakes, basking under a full moon in Tan...

A Belletrist Book Club Pick • A Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick • A Most Anticipated Book from the Boston Globe, Barnes & Noble, Literary Hub, BookRiot, Goodreads, and Town & Country“Casey Scieszka’s debut novel is absolutely delicious, like Tuck Everlasting for grown-ups. The premise is so good—an immortal woman’s search for the fountain of youth—that the writing, crisp and f...

“ The best kind of vampire story—one in which the real evil is us.”—Peng Shepherd“Deliciously monstrous and demanding of our attention, Anna Kovatcheva crafts a feminist vampire story like no other.”—Ms, MagazineA heady, dark-hued Gothic gem of a debut novel: in nineteenth-century Bulgaria, a self-proclaimed vampire slayer—in truth, a traveling con artist—joins forces with a...