In this short story from the "stunning" collection More of this World, Maybe Another , a young man grapples with childhood trauma as he comes of age (Dorothy Allison, award-winning author of Bastard Out of California ).The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass ...

In this short story from the "stunning" collection More of this World, Maybe Another , a woman is about to marry a man she grew up with (Dorothy Allison, award-winning author of Bastard Out of California ).The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our ...

The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love.

The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love.

“An irresistible novel that hurls forward at breathtaking speed toward an unpredictable climax.”—Thrity Umrigar, bestselling author of The Space Between Us“Beautifully written, atmospheric…contains entire worlds. I couldn’t put it down.”—Gary Shteyngart, bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and AbsurdistanMiss Timmins’ School for Girls is the truly dazzling debut of a major novelist, Nayana Currimbhoy. Set in Indi...

On the English Channel island of Guernsey, a teenage girl’s Mean Girls-like experience pushes her to murder her best friend in a scandal, she will discover, that mirrors her uncle’s previously unknown story from the days of the island’s Nazi occupation during WWII. Told through the voices of fifteen-year-old Cat Rozier and her long-dead Uncle Charlie—known to Cat only by the audio recordings he left behind—The Book of Lies lucidly illuminates the interior lives of a scorn...

"A vibrant, nuanced novel about marriage . . . and the moment when we realize that the shimmer of fantasy pales next to the tumultuous reality of . . . happiness." — Carolyn Parkhurst, national bestselling author of The Dogs of BabelWhat sane woman would consider becoming any man's ninth wife? Bess Gray is a thirty-five-year-old folklorist and amateur martial artist living in Washington, DC. Just as she's about to give up...