**One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the SummerA Best Book of the Year in Vogue, Vulture, Elle, and EconomistA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice“Poignant, funny, stealthily ambitious.” —Michelle Goldberg, New York TimesFrom the best-selling author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. comes a funny, eye-opening tale of work in contemporary America.**Every day at 3:55 a.m., membe...

* A NEW YORK TIMES Book Review Editors' Choice * A VOGUE, VULTURE, ELLE, NEW YORKER and ECONOMIST Best Book of the Year * A TIME Must-Read Book * A GUARDIAN Summer Read *'Superb' GUARDIAN'Poignant, funny, stealthily ambitious' THE NEW YORK TIMESTightly plotted, slyly caustic and often v...

The national bestseller, named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, NPR, Slate, The Economist, The New Republic, Bookforum, Baltimore City Paper, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Reader, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and many others. A New York Times Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable book.A bold debut novel by a brilliant you...

Nathaniel Piven is a rising star in Brooklyn's literary scene. After several lean, striving years and an early life as a class-A nerd, he now (to his surprise) has a lucrative book deal, his pick of plum magazine assignments, and the attentions of many desirable women: Juliet, the hotshot business journalist; Elisa, Nate's gorgeous ex-girlfriend, now friend; Hannah, lively and fun and 'almost universally regarded as nice and smart, or smart and nice'.In this twenty-first-century li...

She felt some part of herself relax when she was with him. She could shut off the part of her brain that was always monitoring whether she was talking too much, being 'selfish.'A few years before the start of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., twentysomething writer Nathaniel Piven admires a piece of published work by a young woman named Aurit Arazi, and writes her an email expressing his appreciation. After this introduction, they meet for a drink. At the time, Na...

From Adelle Waldman, author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., here's New Year's, a story from the point of view of Nate's friend Aurit—as startling, provocative and true-to-life a tale about a young woman's dating life as The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. was about a young man's.She felt some part of herself relax when she was with him. She could shut off the part of her brain that was always monitoring whether she was talking too m...

From the best-selling author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. comes a funny, eye-opening tale of work in contemporary America.Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, they empty the day’s truck of merchandise, stock the shelves, and scatter before the store opens and customers arrive. Their lives follow a familiar if gruelin...

**Northanger Abbey is the story of naïve but sweetly appealing Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the 19th-century craze for Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine of a dark and thrilling romance.With a new introduction by Adelle Waldman.**Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Elizabeth Gaskell’s beloved Victorian classic examines social class, integrity, and the tensions between solidarity and autonomy, through the lens of England’s Industrial Revolution—freshly presented with an introduction by bestselling author Adelle WaldmanNineteen-year-old Margaret Hale is devastated when her father unexpectedly gives up their family’s financial security and their picturesque country home in southern England for the dingy northern manufacturing ci...