About The Gods of Heavenly Punishment Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company (March 11, 2013) A lush, exquisitely-rendered meditation on war, The God of Heavenly Punishment tells the story of several families, American and Japanese, their loves and infidelities, their dreams and losses, and how they are all connected by one of the […]
Joanna Hershon, author of A Dual Inheritance, on tour May 2013
About A Dual Inheritance Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (May 7, 2013) For readers of Rules of Civility and The Marriage Plot, Joanna Hershon’s A Dual Inheritance is an engrossing novel of passion, friendship, betrayal, and class—and their reverberations across generations. Autumn 1962: Ed Cantowitz and Hugh Shipley meet in their final year at Harvard. Ed is far removed from […]
Jack Wolf, author of The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones, on tour April 2013
About The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones Paperback: 560 pages Publisher: Penguin Books (March 26, 2013) Explosive, transgressive and wildly inventive, Jack Wolf’s novel THE TALE OF RAW HEAD AND BLOODY BONES (Penguin Original; March 26, 2013; 978-0-14-312382-8; $16.00; also available as an ebook) is arrestingly authentic. UK based author Jack Wolf, who wrote […]
Jamie M. Saul, author of The First Warm Evening of the Year, on tour February 2013
About The First Warm Evening of the Year Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 12, 2013) Geoffrey Tremont is untroubled by his neat, contented bachelor life in bustling New York City. On an ordinary day, Geoffrey arrives home to find a letter awaiting him with a postmark from an unfamiliar town: Shady Grove, New York. […]
Elizabeth Graver, author of The End of the Point, on tour March 2013
About The End of the Point • Hardcover: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper (March 5, 2013) A place out of time, Ashaunt Point—a tiny finger of land jutting into Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts—has provided sanctuary and anchored life for generations of the Porter family, who summer along its remote, rocky shore. But in 1942, the U.S. Army arrives on […]
Susan Tekulve, author of In the Garden of Stone, on tour May/June 2013
About In the Garden of Stone Paperback 260 pages Publication Date: May-2013 Hub City Press Shortly before daybreak in War, West Virginia, a passing train derails and spills an avalanche of coal over sixteen-year-old Emma Palmisano’s house, trapping her sleeping family inside. In Susan Tekulve’s new novel, the year is 1924, and the remote mines of […]
Rita Leganski, author of The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow, on tour February/March 2013
About The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (February 26, 2013) Conceived in love and possibility, Bonaventure Arrow didn’t make a peep when he was born, and the doctor nearly took him for dead. No one knows that Bonaventure’s silence is filled with resonance—a miraculous gift of rarified hearing that encompasses […]
Elizabeth Percer, author of An Uncommon Education, on tour January 2013
About An Uncommon Education • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 8, 2013) Afraid of losing her parents at a young age, Naomi Feinstein prepares single-mindedly for a prestigious future as a doctor. But when her only friend and confidant abruptly departs from her life, Naomi isn’t sure she will ever recover, even after a long-awaited acceptance […]
Lisa O’Donnell, author of The Death of Bees, on tour January 2013
About The Death of Bees • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper (January 2, 2013) Today is Christmas Eve. Today is my birthday. Today I am fifteen. Today I buried my parents in the backyard. Neither of them were beloved. Marnie and her little sister, Nelly, are on their own now. Only they know what happened to their parents, […]
Barbara Kingsolver, author of Flight Behavior, on tour November 2012
About Flight Behavior • Hardcover: 448 pages • Publisher: Harper (November 6, 2012) Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman’s narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. In the lyrical language of her native Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of her novel’s inhabitants and unearths the […]