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...

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...

“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...

In this chilling story, 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, 2016Praise for Katia Lief's crime fiction:"Nail-biting suspense." -Richard Montanari"Mesmerizing." -Lisa Gardner“A must-read for fans of unpredictable psychological susp...

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. ...

How does a psychologist fail to recognize that her intelligent, sensitive, and book-loving mother has created "the worst hoarder house ever seen?" After making the horrifying discovery that her mother had no water in her house for at least two years, Deborah Derrickson Kossmann begins the otherworldly excavation of a childhood home she hasn't been inside for three decades. Moving back and forth in time, from this surreal nightmare of an archaeological dig to recollecting her past and long ...

Set in a small-town, sub-Arctic dive bar, this debut poetry collection explores the complexities of addiction and the person beneath, and the possibility of finding home and community in unexpected places. Among Borin’s poems are portraits of the bar’s regular customers and employees—recurring characters, like those who might appear in a dark and unconventional sitcom. The religious night janitor catalogues the day’s sins; the retired barmaid gussies up at the mirror; the regular customers...