“Like Japanese brush painting, the author’s simple, clear prose captures Miwako’s vulnerability and complexity…An eerie and elegant puzzle.” Kirkus Review What is your novel about? The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida (Soho Press) is a story of how a young…
Anna Solomon’s The Book of V. is a marvel. It’s both expansive and tightly woven, intensely intimate and shared. It braids the individual stories of three women—Lily in 2016 Brooklyn, Vee in Watergate-era Washington D.C., and Esther in ancient Persia—into a…
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…