**Longlisted for the Giller PrizeA Scientific American Best Staff Read of 2023A funny, poignant, and page-turning debut novel that skewers billionaire-funded space travel in a love story of interplanetary proportions.**Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and twenty-three reality TV contestants from around the world—including attractive Israeli soldier Adam, endearing fellow Canadian Pichu, and ...

'Every detail is sharply placed ... a scorching sense of humor and a soft spot for humanity down here on Earth' The New York Times'Fleishman Is In Trouble, but in space' Bobby PalmerA NEW YORK TIMES READERS' FAVOURITE OF 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEKevin is a thirtysomething homebody, happily committed to his hydroponics-expert girlfriend, Am...

I personaggi di questi tredici magistrali racconti si muovono tra confini labili in cui una vividissima realtà sembra sfumare in un indefinibile mondo d'ombra. Una ragazza si innamora di un uomo che vuole trasformarla in un uccello. Una donna si imbatte in un buco sul pavimento, che apparentemente solo lei può vedere, della casa che condivide con il marito. Nel racconto che dà nome alla raccolta assistiamo allo sbocciare dell'amicizia tra due ragazze appena adolescenti e le vediamo affront...

"The emotional range and depth of [Willis's stories], the clarity and deftness, are astonishing."—Alice MunroThe characters in these thirteen masterful and engaging stories exist on the edge of danger, where landscapes melt into dreamscapes and every house is haunted. A drug dealer's girlfriend signs up for the first manned mission to Mars. A girl falls in love with a man who wants to turn her into a bird. A teenaged girl and her best friend test their relationship...

Vi è in ogni biografia un punto di rottura, un prima e un poi. Vi è in tutte le narrazioni una perdita di equilibrio: può accadere che qualcosa irrompa o che, come nel caso di queste 14 storie, svanisca. Come avviene a Nathan, scrittore di provincia che abbandona il suo scrittoio in soffitta, sceneggiature incompiute, domande irrisolte di chi è rimasto a casa. Che siano una gelataia con il viso coperto di lentiggini che porta il nome di Nina Simone, o l'insegnante di francese alla ricerca ...

A French teacher who collects fiancés; a fortune-teller who fails to predict the heartbreak of her own daughter; an aging cowboy seduced by a city girl . . . these are some of the unforgettable people who live in these pages.In Vanishing and Other Stories, secrets are both kept and unearthed, and lives are shaped by missing lovers, parents, and children. With wisdom and dexterity, moments of dark humor, and a remark- able economy of words, Deborah Willis captures an incred...

"The book aims to bring these stoic portraits of black soldiers to life . . . It's what Willis calls the African American experience, as well as resilience." — The GuardianThough both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually served were black. Simultaneously, photography culture blossomed—marking the Civil War as the first conflict to be extensively docu...

The Real Jamie Dornan. This book is your ultimate resource for Jamie Dornan. Here you will find the most up-to-date 52 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Jamie Dornan's Early life, Career and Personal life right away.A quick look inside: Shadows in the Sun (2009 film) - Plot, 2014 British Academy Television Awards - Leading Actor, Marie Antoinette (2006 film) -...

An incredible treasure trove of more than 150 illustrations detailing a small nation of African Americans prepared to make their mark on America

Through 150 striking color photographs, Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs charts the road to Barack Obama's nomination as the first African American to lead the presidential ticket of a major party. Announcing his campaign in Springfield, Illinois, on February 10, 2007, Obama stood on the grounds of the Old State Capitol, where Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "House Divided" speech against slavery in 1858. During an eighteen-month campaign, from the snows of Iowa to...

**TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONThe acclaimed collection of Black photography, now featuring more than one hundred photographs from twenty-first-century artists, fundamentally redefines our understanding of American history.“If a picture truly is worth a thousand words, then Deborah Willis has given us nothing less than an epic history of Homeric proportions. Taken together, Willis’s magnificent gathering of images accompanied by her powerful narrative overturns many comm...

The essays in this book chart how women’s profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a wide range of migratory events from women’s perspectives, covering the Caribbean Diaspora, refugees and slavery through the various lenses of politics and war, love and family.The contributors, which include academics and artists, offer both personal and critical points of view on the ar...