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de Kretser is a master of immersive detail; she tells her story as much through a series of intimately recalled, gorgeously memorable images as she does her charming cast of characters The Life to Come weaves together the loosely connected lives of characters, roaming widely across the globe (from Australia to France to Sri Lanka) and between the present and memories of shared (and hidden) pasts The Life to Come is peppered with delightfully smart and funny observations about culture, human behavior and relationships, while remaining sensitive to resonant issues like immigration, class, and women's critical reception in the arts A strong choice for libraries, book clubs, and reading groups; ideal for National Reading Group Month Catapult published de Kretser's novella, Springtime , in Spring 2016, to critical acclaim in the NYTBR , Star Tribune , Toronto Star , and more; we expect similar critical attention for her new novel
Vengeance
Vengeance is an artful, compulsively readable blend of autofiction, reportage, social commentary, and mystery writing. Readers are immediately swept up by the novel’s central question, “Is Kendrick King guilty?” even as the narrator keeps us in tune with the ironies, injustices, histories, and fractured points of view impacting the answer to this question Set in Louisiana’s Angola prison, this resonant and timely novel explores issues of race and class in the American judicial system, the often slippery labels of guilt and innocence, and the reporter’s power (and privilege) to cast light upon facts and human stories Excellent blurbs in hand from Sarah Koenig, host/executive producer of the acclaimed podcast Serial , Kiese Laymon, and Joshua Ferris ( To Rise Again at a Decent Hour ) Vengeance draws its subject matter from fiction and real life. As James Wood noted in The New Yorker of Lazar’s last novel, I Pity the Poor Immigrant , the author has an unsurpassed talent at crafting “singular narratives out of diverse sources.” Zachary really did spend time (nights and days) in Angola interviewing prisoners, but this is a novel. Author lives and works during the academic year in New Orleans, LA, where he teaches at Tulane. He is available for bookstore, library, and campus visits The author will attend SIBA, with ARCs available at the Fall 2017 annual show, as well as librarians at ALA Midwinter Louisiana’s judicial system (highest rate of incarceration anywhere in the world) and Angola prison in particular have been in the news a lot frequently; NPR ran an April 2017 story on the state’s short-staffed public defenders’ offices; The New Yorker ran a January 2017 profile on Albert Woodfax, the man who served the longest solitary confinement sentence in the prison’s history Angola Prison is 18,000 acres (larger than Manhattan) and has 6300 inmates. They have a radio station, a newspaper, and a television station "Despite the words «A Novel» on the cover, I found myself struggling to think of Vengeance as anything but true. In part, that's by design: the main character is a journalist named Zachary Lazar who meets an inmate at the notorious plantation-style Angola Prison in Louisiana and decides to look into his claims of innocence. But it's also a tribute to the humble, detailed brilliance of the novelist's work in portraying both his character and the lives of those he investigates. His true-or-not-true style becomes a way of reckoning with the difficult, ambivalent work of paying witness in a society organized around punishment and race. True or not, it's a quietly stunning work of fiction." —Tom Nissley, Phinney Books, Seattle, WA
Neon in Daylight
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice [b]"A radiant first novel. . . . [ Neon in Daylight ] has antecedents in the great novels of the 1970s: Renata Adler’s Speedboat , Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights , Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays . . . . Precision—of observation, of language—is Hoby’s gift. Her sentences are sleek and tailored. Language molds snugly to thought." —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times [/b][b] "What do you get when a writer of extreme intelligence, insight, style and beauty chronicles the lives of self-absorbed hedonists— The Great Gatsby , Bright Lights, Big City , and now Neon in Daylight . Hermione Hoby paints a garish world that drew me in and held me spellbound. She is a marvel." —Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth [/b] New York City in 2012, the sweltering summer before Hurricane Sandy hits. Kate, a young woman newly arrived from England, is staying in a Manhattan apartment while she tries to figure out her future. She has two unfortunate responsibilities during her time in America: to make regular Skype calls to her miserable boyfriend back home, and to cat-sit an indifferent feline named Joni Mitchell. The city has other plans for her. In New York's parks and bodegas, its galleries and performance spaces, its bars and clubs crowded with bodies, Kate encounters two strangers who will transform her stay: Bill, a charismatic but embittered writer made famous by the movie version of his only novel; and Inez, his daughter, a recent high school graduate who supplements her Bushwick cafe salary by enacting the fantasies of men she meets on Craigslist. Unmoored from her old life, Kate falls into an infatuation with both of them. Set in a heatwave that feels like it will never break, Neon In Daylight marries deep intelligence with captivating characters to offer us a joyful, unflinching exploration of desire, solitude, and the thin line between life and art.
A Loving, Faithful Animal
Market Smart, literary-inclined readers who voraciously read and recommend books Book clubs, particularly those focused on family relationships, travel, and Australian history Groups or organizations centered around Vietnam War history, veterans’ lives
Beyond the High Blue Air
Market Smart, literary-inclined avid readers who recommend books Parents, book clubs and discussion groups, particularly ones centered around family book clubs Those interested in politics around death with dignity movement People coping with the experience of grief, particularly of close family and friends, in its varying forms Those reckoning with ambiguous loss with a living loved one, whether they are comatose, dealing with drug addiction or alcoholism, or wrestling with mental illness
Dirt Road
James Kelman is a Booker Prize winner with a decorated writing career and intense critical acclaim.Kelman has been named “the greatest living British novelist” in both the Sunday Herald and Frieze Magazine.Only Kelman’s second book set in America, Dirt Road is both a road trip through the music and culture of the American South and a beautiful coming-of-age story.Kelman’s new novel has a unique voice and style, at once musical and meditative, that will make readers feel immersed in Murdo’s experience as he transforms his grief into epiphany through embracing the music and culture of the American South. The novel will resonate with fans of Ivrine Welsh’s Trainspotting, Zadie Smith’s NW, and Donald Ray Pollock’s Knockemstiff.Dirt Road is the perfect book to break James Kelman to the American audience in a big way—it’s accessible, emotional, and vibrates with love for American culture.
The Middlepause
"In The Middlepause Benjamin deftly and brilliantly examines the losses and unexpected gains she experienced in menopause. Menopause is a mind and body shift as monumental and universal as puberty, yet far less often discussed, especially in public, which is what makes Benjamin's work here so urgently necessary." —Kate Tuttle, The Los Angeles Times The Middlepause offers a vision of contentment in middle age, without sentiment or delusion. Marina Benjamin weighs the losses and opportunities of our middle years, taking inspiration from literature, science, philosophy, and her own experience. Spurred by her surgical propulsion into a sudden menopause, she finds ways to move forward while maintaining clear-eyed acknowledgment of the challenges of aging. Attending to complicated elderly parents and a teenaged daughter, experiencing bereavement, her own health woes, and a fresh impetus to give, Benjamin emerges into a new definition of herself as daughter, mother, citizen, and woman. Among The Middlepause's many wise observations about no longer being young: «I am discovering that I care less about what other people think.» «My needs are leaner and my storehouse fuller.» «It is not possible to fully appreciate what it means to age without attending to what the body knows. . . . I have always had a knee-jerk distaste for the idea that age is all in the mind.» «You need a cohort of peers to go through the aging process with you. A cackle of crones! A cavalry!» Marina Benjamin's memoir will serve as a comfort, a companion to women going through the too-seldom-spoken of physical and mental changes in middle age and beyond.
Exes
[A] heartbreaking novel about the devastations of severed attachments.” —NPR For Clay Blackall, a lifelong resident of Providence, Rhode Island, the place has become an obsession. Here live the only people who can explain what happened to his brother, Eli, whose suicide haunts this heartbreaking, hilarious novel-in-fragments. A failed actor impersonates a former movie star; an ex-con looks after a summer home perched atop a rock in the bay; a broken-hearted salutatorian airs thirteen years’ worth of dirty laundry at his school’s commencement; an adjunct struggles to make room for her homeless and self-absorbed mother while revisiting a scandalous high school love affair; a recent widower, with the help of a clever teen, schemes to rid his condo’s pond of Canada geese. Clay compiles their stories, invasively providing context in the form of notes that lead always, somehow, back to Eli. Behind Clay’s possibly insane, definitely doomed, and increasingly suspect task burns his desire to understand his brother’s death, and the city that has defined and ruined them both. Full of brainy detours and irreverent asides, Exes is a powerful investigation of grief, love, and our deeply held yet ever-changing notions of home.
Gamer Trouble
Complicating perspectives on diversity in video games Gamers have been troublemakers as long as games have existed. As our popular understanding of “gamer” shifts beyond its historical construction as a white, straight, adolescent, cisgender male, the troubles that emerge both confirm and challenge our understanding of identity politics. In Gamer Trouble , Amanda Phillips excavates the turbulent relationships between surface and depth in contemporary gaming culture, taking readers under the hood of the mechanisms of video games in order to understand the ways that difference gets baked into its technological, ludic, ideological, and social systems.By centering the insights of queer and women of color feminisms in readings of online harassment campaigns, industry animation practices, and popular video games like Portal and Mass Effect , Phillips adds essential analytical tools to our conversations about video games. She embraces the trouble that attends disciplinary crossroads, linking the violent hate speech of trolls and the representational practices marginalizing people of color, women, and queers in entertainment media to the dehumanizing logic undergirding computation and the optimization strategies of gameplay. From the microcosmic level of electricity and flicks of a thumb to the grand stages of identity politics and global capitalism, wherever gamers find themselves, gamer trouble follows. As reinvigorated forms of racism, sexism, and homophobia thrive in games and gaming communities, Phillips follows the lead of those who have been making good trouble all along, agitating for a better world.
Banned
Examines immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administration Within days of taking office, President Donald J. Trump published or announced changes to immigration law and policy. These changes have profoundly shaken the lives and well-being of immigrants and their families, many of whom have been here for decades, and affected the work of the attorneys and advocates who represent or are themselves part of the immigrant community. Banned examines the tool of discretion, or the choice a government has to protect, detain, or deport immigrants, and describes how the Trump administration has wielded this tool in creating and executing its immigration policy.Banned combines personal interviews, immigration law, policy analysis, and case studies to answer the following questions: (1) what does immigration enforcement and discretion look like in the time of Trump? (2) who is affected by changes to immigration enforcement and discretion?; (3) how have individuals and families affected by immigration enforcement under President Trump changed their own perceptions about the future?; and (4) how do those informed about immigration enforcement and discretion describe the current state of affairs and perceive the future? Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia pairs the contents of these interviews with a robust analysis of immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administration and offers recommendations for moving forward.The story of immigration and the role immigrants play in the United States is significant. The government has the tools to treat those seeking admission, refuge, or opportunity in the United States humanely. Banned offers a passionate reminder of the responsibility we all have to protect America’s identity as a nation of immigrants.