In her funny, idiosyncratic, and propulsive novel, written as a series of Instagram essays, Snapchat freakouts, rejected Yelp reviews, Facebook screeds, and SmugMug streams-of-consciousness merging volcanic confession with eagle-eyed art criticism, Yxta Maya Murray shows us the painful but joyous development of a mid-career artist whose world implodes just as she has a breakthrough.
A woman describes a series of encounters in the ordinary course of her life: running into an ex at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with guests, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with cancer. The woman finds each person needs the same thing: an audience for their experiences.
In a nimble dance of lightness and gravity, Likes explores the full range and contradictions of our contemporary moment. Through unexpected visitors, Waldorf school fairs, aging indie-film stars, and the Instagram posts of a twelve-year-old, these stories form an engrossing collection that is both otherworldly and suffused with the deceitful humdrum of everyday life.
An old man rages in his nursing home, a rich man is haunted by a hog, an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker, and Howard Hughes seeks out the woman who once cooked him butter beans. Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, If I Had Two Wings is a chorus of voices and visions marked by physicality and spirit.
Lilia Liska has outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her attention to the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair. Increasingly obsessed with Roland's intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own version of events.
Thrumming with energy and at once critical and hopeful, The Son of Good Fortune is a big-hearted debut novel following an undocumented Filipino son as he navigates his relationship with his mother, an uncertain future, and the place he calls home.
A small town in the American South takes a strange, silent visitor in and nicknames them Pew. As the town prepares for a mysterious Forgiveness Festival, townspeople confess their secrets to Pew. By the time Pew’s story reaches a climax, the secret of their true nature is dwarfed by larger truths.
When Emilio turns 16, his parents reveal a shocking secret: he is undocumented. Emilio adjusts to his new normal, until he gets into a car accident and the policeman on the scene reports him to ICE. Emilio is deported to Guatemala, but he is determined to take an epic journey home.
After decades of ambivalent work as an interrogator with the Iranian regime, Hamid Mozaffarian travels on a diplomatic mission to New York, where he encounters his estranged family. As he reconnects with his brother and others living in exile, Hamid is forced to reckon with his past.
Blindsided by her mother’s sudden death and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody now waits tables in a small Massachusetts town and rents a moldy room where she works on a novel. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures further.
