Meng Jin’s debut, Little Gods (Custom House, 2020), is an elegant, haunting novel that lingers like an eerie song. What starts on a grand stage—in a maternity ward near Tiananmen Square, where a massacre is about to unfold—becomes an intimate…
“A Tender Thing drops at just the right time: if fans can’t go to the theater right now, at least they can read about it.” –Variety “Debut author Neuberger…clearly knows the world she’s depicting; she brings to life with nice historical detail…
What is your book about? Knox Thompson thinks he’s working a hustle, but it’s a hustle that’s working him. Trying to keep his pizza shop and parents afloat, he cleans out a backroom Kentucky poker game, only to get roped…
“Endlessly inquisitive and wider in scope than length, the novella proves a worthy addition to the canon of messy, strange, and keen women. Genre-bending, hard to categorize, and teeming with life.” —Kirkus Review What is your novella about? Still…
“How do we survive a body breaking and then taking us back home to the origin site of violence?…This is the story of a body not broken but reaching for beauty, a life not destroyed, but re-storied.” – Lidia Yuknavitch,…
Give us the elevator pitch for your book. In the wake of my mother’s death, I uncovered boxes of letters, declassified CIA reports, and newspaper clippings that brought to light a family ghost: my uncle Jack, who disappeared during the…