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Sean Dixon
The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal
978-1-59051-312-5 | $23.95 |
Other Press | HC
The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women’s Book Club loves to bring to life tableaux from the books they read. But when they begin to enact the Epic of Gilgamesh in the early days of the Iraq War, the book begins to enact their lives instead, sending the Cabalists across the globe in search of a wise man who will hopefully have all the answers.
Nick Harkaway
Gone-Away World
978-0-307-26886-0 | $25.95 |
Knopf | HC
A wildly entertaining debut novel and a staff favorite, this novel introduces a bold new voice that combines antic humor with a stunning futuristic vision to give us an electrifyingly original tale of love, friendship and the apocalypse. Think Catch-22 meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and then takes a bath in pink nail polish.
Justin Peacock
A Cure for Night
978-0-385-52580-0 | $24.95 |
Doubleday | HC
In this twisty and overwhelmingly authentic journey through the real Brooklyn, Justin Peacock paints a portrait of the law as a form of combat where the best story wins—but who’s telling the truth and who’s lying are matters of interpretation. And of life and death.
Elizabeth Diamond
Accidental Light
978-1-59051-301-9 | $23.95 |
Other Press | HC
On a quiet road just outside London, in the blue half-light of dusk, a fatal car accident takes the life of thirteen-year-old Laura Jenkins, and her death changes the lives of two families forever, forcing one man to reassess his life and confront his secrets, and a mother to rebuild her life. |
Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore
Blindspot
978-0-385-52619-7 | $24.95 |
Spiegel and Grau | HC
Written with wit and exuberance by longtime friends and accomplished historians Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore, Blindspot weaves together invention with actual historical documents in an affectionate send-up of the best of eighteenth-century fiction. Prodigiously learned and beautifully crafted, it celebrates the art of the Enlightenment and the passion of the American Revolution.
978-0-8478-3109-8 | $24.95 |
Rizzoli | HC
Told entirely in the first person by Giovanni Astengo, a forty-year-old worker in the Italian State Archives, this novel is a diary of sorts, with occasional asides modeled on Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveller. This marks the first work of fiction by Veltroni, the mayor of Rome and a major figure in Italian politics.
William Bernhardt
Going to See the Elephant
978-0-385-34239-1 | $22.00 |
Delacorte | HC
On a windy September day, Slater Brown stands in the back of a bicycle taxi hurtling the wrong way down the busiest street in San Francisco. 25 year-old Slater Brown has come to stake his claim to fame and become the greatest writer ever. But this city, with its infinite magic, has other plans.
Yasutaka Tsutsui
Salmonella Men on Planet Porno: Stories
978-0-307-37726-5 | $21.95 |
Pantheon | HC
This collection of marvelously off-kilter short stories – the American debut of acclaimed Japanese writer Yasutaka Tsutsui – portrays the consequences of a world where the fantastic and the mundane collide and throw the lives of ordinary men and women into disarray. |
