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Since her astonishing debut at twenty-five with <i>Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit</i>, Jeanette Winterson has achieved worldwide critical and commercial success as “one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time” (<i>Elle</i>). Her new novel, <i>Frankissstein</i>, is an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and queer love.<BR><BR>Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead… but waiting to return to life.<BR><BR>What will happen when <i>homo sapiens</i> is no longer the smartest being on the planet? In fiercely intelligent prose, Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realize. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, <i>Frankissstein</i> is a love story about life itself.
Pass Over
Pass Over combines two seminal yet disparate texts of Western literature—the Book of Exodus and Beckett’s Waiting for Godot —and transforms their themes of escape and the existential challenges of waiting in her depiction of two young Black men as they joke and dream about someday “passing over” into a new life while simultaneously trying to survive in a hostile and dangerous environment. The play was first produced at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago in the summer of 2017, with Danya Taymor directing, and moved to Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center in New York the following summer. At one of the Steppenwolf performances, award-winning film director, producer, and writer Spike Lee filmed it and posted the resulting film on Amazon Video. The film was screened at the Sundance Film Festival where it was praised by the Hollywood Reporter , among other publications. The Steppenwolf production sparked enormous controversy in the press—a “whitelash,” in Nwandu’s words—for the play’s so-called reverse racism in its portrayal of the white characters. In a response Nwandu penned for American Theatre , she points out that complacent privilege, represented by the genteel Mister, is just as pernicious and dangerous as the more outwardly hostile aggression of Ossifer, a menacing cop. She concluded, “I write plays that hold a mirror up to society, that expose the darkness as a means to finding light. This is necessary work. Healing work.” Nwandu is a star on the rise; among her most prestigious awards are the Whiting Award for Drama, the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, the Negro Ensemble Company’s Douglas Turner Ward Prize, and a Literary Fellowship at the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference. Her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony, the Sundance Theater Lab, the Cherry Lane Mentor Project, the Kennedy Center, and many others. In addition to her work as a playwright, Nwandu is working on a novel.
Gettysburg
Reminiscent of the work of Tom Perrotta, Bruce Wagner, and Michael Tolkin, Morris's Gettysburg , which centers on a Los Angeles entertainment lawyer who signs up for a Civil War re-enactment in California's Chino Valley, is at once a biting satire of Hollywood and an astute exploration of America’s present and its history. An entertainment lawyer himself, Morris brings the main character, John Reynolds, and his Hollywood surroundings to vivid, hilarious life. Morris's 2016 novel All Joe Knight was Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was an Amazon Best Book of the Month in Literature & Fiction in December 2016. Both All Joe Knight and Morris's 2015 story collection White Man's Problems were published to rave reviews in major publications including The New York Times , Vanity Fair , Esquire , and Time . We expect similar coverage for Gettysburg . Morris's writing has been compared to that of John Updike, Raymond Carver, and John Cheever. Morris is an entertainment lawyer, writer, and producer with impressive credits and extensive connections in the entertainment industry. He produced the acclaimed documentary Hands on a Hardbody and was a coproducer and Tony Award winner for the hit Broadway musical The Book of Mormon .
Liver
In this collection of four linked stories, newly reissued by Grove, Will Self takes aim at the disease and decay that target the largest of human organs: the liver. Set in locales as toxic as a London drinking club and mundane as a clinic in an orderly Swiss city, the stories distill the hard lives of their subjects, whether alcoholic, drug addict, or cancer patient. In “Foie Humaine,” set at the Plantation Club, it’s always a Tuesday afternoon in midwinter, and the shivering denizens of this dusty realm spend their days observing its proprietor as he force-feeds the barman vodka-spiked beer. Joyce Beddoes, protagonist of “Leberknödel,” has terminal liver cancer and is on her way to be euthanized in Zurich when, miraculously, her disease goes into remission. In “Prometheus,” a young copywriter at London’s most cutting-edge ad agency has his liver nibbled by a griffon thrice daily, but he’s always in the pink the following morning and ready to make that killer pitch. If blood and bile flow through liverish London, the two arteries meet in “Birdy Num Num,” where career junky Billy Chobham performs little services for the customers who gather to wait for the Man, while in his blood a virus pullulates. A moving portrayal of egos, appetites, and addictions, <i>Liver</i> is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most talented minds working today.
Code Blue
For the first time, Code Blue presents the dramatic story of how our Medical Industrial Complex was built, while exploring why Americans pay way more for healthcare than any developed country in the world—and get far worse results. Mike Magee’s narrative rivals the best of Michael Lewis in its clarity, authority, and compulsive readability. This is essential reading for every American concerned with his or her health and the health of the nation. Magee explains American healthcare’s original sin: when establishing our system, health and political leaders prioritized profit over good health results; cure over care; and quixotically conquering disease over improving the social, cultural, and environmental conditions that in huge ways determine the health of our citizenry. While we established our profit-first system for our citizens, our military designed single-payer systems focused on care, not cure, for our defeated enemies in World War II, Germany and Japan—the system we ought to have in the United States. Statistics are compelling; here are two: 1) American children are almost twice as likely to die in the first five years of life than British, German, Canadian, and Japanese children—all countries which have single payer, multi-plan systems. 2) The U.S. healthcare lobby is four times as large as that run by the U.S. defense industry. Mike Magee is a distinguished doctor, hospital administrator, and former executive of Pfizer. He has spent the last ten years unraveling how our healthcare system was built and the complexity of its operation. Code Blue is the remarkable culmination of that decade of research.
Correspondents
“Murphy artfully connects multiple narratives to produce a sprawling tale of love, family, duty, war, and displacement. It is above all a stinging indictment of the ill-fated war in Iraq and the heavy tolls it continues to exact on its people.”—Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner The world is Rita Khoury’s oyster. The bright and driven daughter of a Boston-area Irish-Arab family that has risen over the generations from poor immigrants to part of the coastal elite, Rita grows up in a 1980s cultural mishmash. Corned beef and cabbage sit on the dinner table alongside stuffed grape leaves and tabooleh , all cooked by Rita’s mother, an Irish nurse who met her Lebanese surgeon husband while working at a hospital together. The unconventional yet close-knit family bonds over summers at the beach, wedding line-dances, and a shared obsession with the Red Sox.Rita charts herself an ambitious path through Harvard to one of the best newspapers in the country. She is posted in cosmopolitan Beirut and dates a handsome Palestinian would-be activist. But when she is assigned to cover the America-led invasion of Baghdad in 2003, she finds herself unprepared for the warzone. Her lifeline is her interpreter and fixer Nabil al-Jumaili, an equally restless young man whose dreams have been restricted by life in a deteriorating dictatorship, not to mention his own seemingly impossible desires. As the war tears Iraq apart, personal betrayal and the horrors of conflict force Rita and Nabil out of the country and into twisting, uncertain fates. What lies in wait will upend their lives forever, shattering their own notions of what they’re entitled to in a grossly unjust world. Epic in scope, by turns satirical and heartbreaking, and speaking sharply to America’s current moment, Correspondents is a whirlwind story about displacement from one’s own roots, the violence America promotes both abroad and at home, and the resilience that allows families to remake themselves and endure even the most shocking upheavals.
Dead Wrong
Since both the Notorious B.I.G.’s and Tupac Shakur’s deaths, there has been endless fascination with their murders. LAbyrinth has been adapted into a feature film that will be released in fall 2018, directed by Brad Furman and starring Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker. A movie tie-in edition will be released in September. LAbyrinth was published to great acclaim from the Boston Globe , Washington Post , Entertainment Weekly , and others. Dead Wrong will include the Notorious BIG Estate’s wrongful death suit against the LAPD and City of Los Angeles, which was dismissed without prejudice when the LAPD claimed to be reopening the case (after which nothing has happened). “Without prejudice” means the case can be refiled at any time. Randall Sullivan will also examine the Los Angeles Times ’s reporting on the case, which repeatedly omitted evidence in favor of the most likely theory of who murdered Biggie (a hit ordered by Suge Knight and executed by LAPD officer David Mack and a man named Amir Muhammed), and at one point outed a confidential informant whose evidence supported that theory. The journalist who wrote most of that coverage was later fired, ostensibly as part of routine layoffs. Sullivan will debunk the self-published book Murder Rap by former LAPD detective Greg Kading, who also misdirects readers against the Mack-Muhammed theory of the murder. The Kading book was the basis for the recent USA Network limited television series Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious BIG. Additionally, Sullivan will cover the death of Russell Poole, the detective who sought and failed to break the LAPD’s code of silence about the Mack-Muhammed theory, resulting eventually in losing his employment and succumbing to depression and alcoholism.
The Finance Curse
Shaxson is a highly regarded expert on international finance who has written for publications including Vanity Fair , the Economist , and the Financial Times . His work on tax havens gained international attention in the wake of the Panama and Paradise Papers as Shaxson was one of few journalists who had written extensively on the subject before these scandals and had warned of the huge scale of this issue. In 2012, the International Tax Review named him as one of the “Global Tax 50” most influential people in international tax. The Finance Curse is a shocking and important book—controversially, Shaxson argues that the financial sector, which makes mind-boggling profits at the expense of businesses, their employees, and the tax payer, is a net negative for the economy. Shaxson’s thesis is attention-grabbing: he argues the idea that countries and states must give tax breaks and other financial incentives to banks and big business in the name of “competitivity,” to avoid them fleeing for more accommodating climes, is a falsehood. Shaxson also discusses the brain drain to finance that Western democracies suffer—young men and women who could be contributing in business or the public sector are drawn to an industry that produces little good for the business world at large. These themes and the many other talking points in the book are sure to get him attention in print media and radio. The Finance Curse grounds its argument historically, showing how we got to the point where the banks and big business determine our tax code and much of our corporate policy. Shaxson reminds us that it wasn't always like this and shows us how through regulation and rebalancing of political priorities we might be able to shift the power back towards businesses that are engaged in society and produce something towards the public good, as well as the public sector. Shaxson’s book uses stories from the great rise of the banks in the twentieth century to strengthen his argument. He also talks about the little-known history of some of the first purely speculative financial instruments, the so-called Eurobonds which were first issued in 1963 and proved resistant to regulation. As we enter a time of low unemployment, increased deregulation, and record highs in the financial indices, it is important to keep a keen eye on the workings on the financial world, as well as on questions of wealth redistribution and the future of American business. Shaxson’s books is a timely look at all of these subjects. For fans of Michael Lewis, Daniel Kahneman, Niall Ferguson, and Paul Krugman.
The Club
For fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History , Joël Dicker’s The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair , Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny , and Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley , The Club is a tantalizing mix of literary writing and a propulsively suspenseful narrative.Like Herman Koch’s breakthrough New York Times -bestseller The Dinner , The Club has been a huge success in Europe and now is poised to capture a big American readership. Like The Dinner it explores the seediness behind the veneer of bourgeois respectability, and is set in the elite world of Cambridge University, among upper class and social climber students—and their families.Würger is one of Germany’s most highly regarded young writers, and the winner of the prestigious lit.Cologne prize for debut fiction. This novel was a huge indie bookstore and word-of-mouth success in Germany, selling over 50,000 hardcover copies there and staying on the bestseller list for months—and the momentum is continuing with the paperback. Würger’s second novel, Stella (which Grove also acquired) has been the subject of major international publishing auctions, and was a strong six-figure deal in Germany. Grove is thrilled to be bringing this brilliantly talented writer to American readers. Würger himself studied at Cambridge, where he boxed for the university team and was a member of the Pitt Club. He knows this world intimately. He also speaks perfect English and will be available for interviews and profiles. The book explores questions of privilege, sexual violence on campus, and takes the reader into the upper echelons of a world of privilege and hedonism. The Pitt Club is a real institution: a private members’ club at Cambridge, similar to the Skull and Bones Club at Yale University in the United States. Its past members allegedly include King George V, economist John Maynard Keynes, and actor Eddie Redmayne. A talented journalist who works as a war reporter for Der Spiegel , Würger was named one of Medium ’s “Top 30 Journalists Under 30” in 2010 and awarded a CNN Journalist Award in 2013. He has reported around the world, including warzones in Afghanistan, Libya, the Ukraine, and the Middle East. The novel is translated by highly regarded translator Charlotte Collins, who is best known for her translation of International Booker shortlisted Robert Seethaler’s A Whole Life . Charlotte studied at Cambridge and once was a waitress for a dinner of the members of the Pitt Club, so it is particularly fitting that she be the one to translate this novel.
Virgil Wander
The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals—from Rune, a twinkling, pipe-smoking, kite-flying stranger investigating the mystery of his disappeared son; to Nadine, the reserved, enchanting wife of the vanished man, to Tom, a journalist and Virgil’s oldest friend; and various members of the Pea family who must confront tragedies of their own. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town.With intelligent humor and captivating whimsy, Leif Enger conjures a remarkable portrait of a region and its residents, who, for reasons of choice or circumstance, never made it out of their defunct industrial district. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures including movies, fishing, necking in parked cars, playing baseball and falling in love, Virgil Wander is a swift, full journey into the heart and heartache of an often overlooked American Upper Midwest by a “formidably gifted” (Chicago Tribune) master storyteller.