NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEA son’s collapse pulls his two mothers together and apart in a novel that probes the limits of love, hope, and forgivenessIn Norway, thousands of miles from home, a student drops dead on the street. A passerby revives his heart, but he remains in a coma from which he may never wake. His mothers rush across the continent to his bedside where they endure the strain of helpless waiting. As the te...

In Irish novelist Cormac James’s “vivid, hypnotic, and acutely piercing” (Colum McCann) North American debut, a ship’s lieutenant discovers a stowaway, pregnant with his child, while battling crushing Arctic ice“An extraordinary novel, combining a powerful narrative with a considered and poetic use of language. . . . Reading the book, I recalled the dramatic natural landscape of Jack London and the wild untamed seas of William Golding.” —John Boyne...

Far from civilization, on the hunt for Sir John Franklin's recently lost Northwest Passage expedition, Lieutenant Morgan and his crew find themselves trapped in ever-hardening Arctic ice that threatens to break apart their ship. When Morgan realizes that a stowaway will give birth to his child in the frozen wilderness, he finds new clarity and courage to lead his men across a bleak expanse as shifting, stubborn, and treacherous as human nature itself.A harrowing tale of psychologic...

A son's collapse pulls his two mothers together and apart in a novel that probes the limits of love, hope, and forgivenessIn Norway, thousands of miles from home, a student drops dead on the street. A passerby revives his heart, but he remains in a coma from which he may never wake. His mothers rush across the continent to his bedside where they endure the strain of helpless waiting. As the tense hospital vigil continues day after day and they vacillate between ext...

One of The Atlantic’s “Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years,” now with a new foreword by Marlon JamesWidely considered one of the finest novels by a living writer, Blood Meridian is an epic tale of the violence and corruption that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the “Wild West.” Its wounded hero, the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean, must confront the...