**A Seattle Times BestsellerOne of The Washington Post’s 10 Noteworthy Books for JanuaryOne of The Los Angeles Times’ 10 Books to Add to Your Reading List in JanuaryOne of The Seattle Times’ 24 Books to Look Out for in 2025One of Kirkus' Best 20 Books to Read in JanuaryThe extraordinary new novel by Jonathan Evison, about a married couple in their golden years, from when they met across big ups, deep downs, a...

**A “wickedly funny and sublimely moving” debut from the New York Times–bestselling author of This is Your Life, Harriet Chance! (Caroline Leavitt, author of Cruel Beautiful World)A quirky coming-of-age novel about a gawky vegetarian in an off-the-wall bodybuilding family, who develops an inconvenient obsession with his new stepsister . . .**Weakness has always been a concern for William Miller: growing up vegetarian in a family of competitive bod...

From one of America’s greatest, most creative novelists comes Again and Again, a poignant and endlessly surprising story about love lost, found, and redeemedEugene “Geno” Miles is living out his final days in a nursing home, bored, curmudgeonly, and struggling to connect with his new nursing assistant, Angel, who is understandably skeptical of Geno’s insistence on having lived not just one life but many—all the way back to medieval Spain, where, as a petty...

**Winner of the Housatonic Book AwardA New York Times Editors' Choice!One of Booklist’s “Top 10 Historical Fiction Novels of 2022”One of the Los Angeles Times's “10 Books to Add to Your Reading List”****One of Book Culture's Most Anticipated Reads“A bighearted, widescreen American tale.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Masterpiece . . . The quintessential great American novel.”—Booklist (starred re...

One of the American Library Association's Top 10 Most Banned Books for the past two years, this award-winning coming-of-age novel takes readers into the heart and humor of a young man determined to achieve the ever-changing American dream. He just happens to find himself along the way.“Mike Muñoz Is a Holden Caulfield for a New Millennium.” --The New York Times Book ReviewFor Mike Muñoz, life has been a whole lot o...

‘As sweet as it is inventive, profound as it is hilarious, unflinching as it is big-hearted.’Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, BernadetteHarriet Chance has spent the last seventy-eight years following the rules…Career girl (brief)Wife (fifty-five years)Mother of two (ongoing)Now widowed, Harriet discovers that her late husband had been planning an Alaska...

Jonathan Evison opens his electrifying epic, West of Here, at the Elwha River dam, where over a hundred years since settlers of the fictional town of Port Bonita tamed the river, their descendants gather in anticipation of the dam's blasting, and a new era of restoration.Across the next five hundred pages, Evison's story moves between 2006 and the town's earliest days at the close of the 19th century, overlaying stories of the people who passed through or dug in at Port Bo...

LIFE-AFFIRMING STORY OF A DISABLED TEENAGER AND HIS CLUELESS CARER, NOW A NETFLIX DRAMA STARRING PAUL RUDD AND SELENA GOMEZ.The first rule of caring is Don't Get Emotionally Involved. So clueless carer Ben probably shouldn't have agreed to drive stroppy, wheelchair-bound teenager Trevor 400 miles across America to reunite with his deadbeat dad.Especially when Trevor's mother has absolutely forbidden it. Especially when a road trip like this could go so disa...

In The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving (releasing June 24, 2016 as a Netflix Original Film titled The Fundamentals of Caring, starring Paul Rudd and Selena Gomez), Jonathan Evison, author of the new novel This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! and the New York Times bestseller West of Here, has crafted a novel of the heart, a story of unlikely heroes in a grand American landscape.For Ben Benjamin, all has been lost--his wife, his family, ...

First published in 1899, this graphic depiction of urban American life centers around McTeague, a "dentist" practicing in San Francisco at the turn of the century. While at first content with his life and friendship with an ambitious man named Marcus, McTeague eventually courts and marries Trina, a parsimonious young woman who wins a large sum of money in a lottery. It is not long before the jealousy and avarice of the majority of the characters in the novel sets off a chain of inevitable ...

At the foot of the Elwha River, the muddy outpost of Port Bonita is about to boom, fueled by a ragtag band of dizzyingly disparate men and women unified only in their visions of a more prosperous future. A failed accountant by the name of Ethan Thornburgh has just arrived in Port Bonita to reclaim the woman he loves and start a family. Ethan’s obsession with a brighter future impels the damming of the mighty Elwha to harness its power and put Port Bonita on the map.More than a cent...

“Insightful, richly entertaining . . . Evison writes humanely and with good humor of his characters, who, like the rest of us, muddle through, too often without giving ourselves much of a break. A lovely, forgiving character study that’s a pleasure to read.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewWith Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years, now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise that her l...