“Pride. Tradition. Fear.”Flyover casts looming shadows over Warren Everett. Shadows of his dead older brother. Shadows of the limiting expectations his upbringing imposes over him. Shadows from the massive turbines of the wind farm he lives amongst.Fearful that he'll never reach what sunlight he needs to thrive if he can't break free of all these shadows, Warren struggles with what exactly it means to ‘be a man’ in such a rapidly changing ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • She has always known the rules: Never resurrect anything larger than the palm of her hand. But that was before her sister died. . . .NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY • THE BULLETIN BLUE RIBBON AWARD LIST“Yun beautifully captures the haunting of family myths in this slow-burn horror. Eerie and poignant, And The River Drags Her Down will sweep readers int...

Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes*,* combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in a large cardboard box he wears over his head. Wandering the streets of Tokyo and scribbling madly on the interior walls of his box, he d...

Armed with a terminal diagnosis, a grudge, and a rental car, Hester sets out to fulfill her lifelong dream of killing her father in this brilliantly subversive and bleakly funny debut novel.“Bad Nature shows we’re getting selfishness all wrong. As uproariously funny as a takedown of our deadly society can be, the novel is also an urgent call to exchange possession for belonging.”**—Alissa Nutting, The New York Times...

You just read your manuscript and discovered that your characters nod like marionettes in every chapter. When they're not nodding, they roll their eyes.Time to slash the Pinocchio strings and turn them into real people. Award-winning author Kathy Steinemann provides the tools. She cuts through the so-called rules and offers simple solutions.Too many repetitions of "little"? There's a cure for that. Do you rely on "very" too often? There's a cure for that too. You'll find th...

Ordinary writers describe the body in order to evoke images in readers' minds. Extraordinary writers leverage it to add elements such as tension, intrigue, and humor.The Writer's Body Lexicon provides tools for both approaches.Kathy Steinemann provides a boggling number of word choices and phrases for body parts, organized under similar sections in most chapters:• Emotion Beats and Physical Manifestations• Adjectives• Similes and Metaphors• Colo...

The internationally acclaimed author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov now returns to gift us with Forty Rooms, which outshines even that prizewinning novel.Totally original in conception and magnificently executed, Forty Rooms is mysterious, withholding, and ultimately emotionally devastating. Olga Grushin is dealing with issues of women’s identity, of women’s choices, that no modern novel has explored so deeply.“Forty rooms” is a co...

A darkly melancholic tale that combines Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and Camus’s The Fall —Nakamura’s Akutagawa Prize-winning novel is here translated into English for the first time and is another high-water mark in this important writer’s career.As an unnamed Tokyo taxi driver works a night shift, picking up fares that offer him glimpses into the lives of ordinary people, he can’t escape his own nihilistic thoughts. Almost without meaning to, he puts ...

Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless question: What comes after death? Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you’ll find that question sharpened, split, reconsidered—and met with a multitude of answers.A spirit who is fated to spend eternity reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, ghostly trees that haunt the occupant of a wooden house, specters that snatch an...

Surrealism meets noir in this brilliant, witty, chilling novel of international espionage.When the anonymous narrator botches an assignment from the clandestine organization that employs him, everyone in his life becomes a participant in his punishment. In the end, he is called out of retirement for a final assignment: to seek and identify his own assassin.

Eli Gottlieb's previous novel, Now You See Him, was acclaimed by reviewers as "irresistible … moving" ( New York Times Book Review), "a triumph…of literary suspense" ( Los Angeles Times), and "gorgeous" ( USA Today). With The Face Thief, he returns with a driving, compulsively readable novel that probes the wellsprings of human greed and loyalty beset by temptation.Gottlieb introduces the mystery of the charismatic Margot, a promising jo...

The unthinkable thoughts and depraved deeds of people, nature, and the seriously supernatural are voyeuristically exposed with an amazing alliterative allure in Barbara Eck Tosi’s SCARY. This psychotically charged collection of nightmarish narratives unfolds in refreshingly rhythmic rhymes. Overdosed with injections of spine-splintering sordidness, SCARY dares you to experience its macabre and maniacal madness. At the mercy of monsters that maliciously manipulate their minds, these contort...