Della Vance has spent six years keeping the accounts of her own survival, and the numbers finally balance. A job she's good at. An apartment that's hers. A six-year-old nephew asleep down the hall who trusts her, completely, to have the rest of everything handled. She learned a long time ago what it costs to let a man decide who she gets to be, and she has one unbreakable rule now: no chair left out at her table. No invitations. No risk.Then her car dies on Route 9 in the Tennessee...

She built a home out of a foreclosure and her own two hands. She's not about to let a man take it.Della Marsh spent three years learning to take up her own space again. After a marriage that made her feel like the wrong size in her own life, she rebuilt from nothing — a sage-green house on the corner of Holt and Second, a daycare full of other people's kids, a little girl who collects rocks and hands strangers her most precious things. It's small. It's hers. And sh...

“A Gothic-punk graveyard tale about what haunts history and what haunts the human soul. An addicting read that draws you into its descent from the first page.”—Chuck Wendig, New York Times best-selling author of The Book of AccidentsOne of Vulture's Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you think twice abou...

From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune) comes a comic novel about a divorced Midwestern dad who takes a cutting-edge medical test and learns that he has a predisposition to murder.In this fresh take on love and trouble in America, Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman and Sunday-school teacher, finds his equilibrium disturbed by the results of a predictive blood test. Baxter, a master storyteller, bring...

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart—a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families.Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton h...

Wilbur is just ten weeks old when his new owner brings him home from the local animal shelter. Life is different in the suburbs for this little orange tiger-striped kitten. With his narrow chin, flat head, and pointy ears, he looks and feels a bit devilish. And he doesn't appreciate being named after a pig.Told from the perspective of this mischievous feline, Wilbur's Story follows the tales and adventures of Wilbur as he settles into life with author Lany Williams. From g...

In New American Stories, the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd of contemporary fiction writers. Collected here are practitioners of deep realism, mind-blowing experimentalism, and every hybrid in between. Luminaries and cult authors stand side by side with the most compelling new literary voices. Noth...

Suburban calm is shattered when a mother's worst nightmare comes trueShe is twenty-one, gorgeous, and well mannered. She speaks English, she loves children, and children love her. Harriet Major is the perfect babysitter—almost too good to be true. Georgia Coffey has been searching for someone like Harriet ever since becoming pregnant with her second child. But in the sprawling suburbs of New York City, where the many bankers' wives need a nanny for every baby, good ...

“A must-read for fans of psychological suspense.” –Wendy Corsi StaubIn this chilling tale of psychological suspense, a woman home alone in the middle of the night surprises an intruder who expected to have the upper hand. In the days that follow, she tends her prized orchid while hiding evidence of her growing list of crimes.Derringer Award nomination, 2016

This story is about a young girl inheriting and carrying on a legacy of a garden handed down to her by her grandmother. The young girl learns so much from and about her grandmother and the earlier generations that brought this garden to life, and learns the most sacred secret she has ever had to keep. Her belief and faith in the KEEPERS OF THE GARDEN is vital for their growth and survival. Her task gives her strength to find, within herself, the most precious gift ever given; Believing is ...

These stories come at us from every direction. They are Ron Carlson's response to the eighties, the stories we will want by our sides as the decade ends.Whether it is a husband trying to bring his marriage back together or Bigfoot finally coming forward, Carlson's characters speak with radical honesty that is disarming. They are the men and women all around us who open the refrigerator at two in the morning and see the faces of missing children on the milk carton. ...

A family tale for new readers, from a New York Times Notable author in her stride. A young girl leaves Tokyo with her mother in 1979, carrying her pink suitcase to a new home, a new father and sister, on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Thirty-three years later, her mother's belongings are found packed into boxes, her furniture draped in white sheets. Without so much as a note, she has left the two sisters connected by history, by some idea of family, to look for her. What happens when people lose ...