About The Tell • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (January 8, 2013) An elegant and haunting novel of love and family, The Tell demands that we reconsider our notions of marriage—duty, compromise, betrayal, and the choice to stand by or leave the ones we love. Mira and Owen’s marriage is less stable than they know when Wilton […]
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, […]
Tessa Hadley, author of Married Love, on tour November/December 2012
About Married Love • Paperback: 240 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (November 20, 2012) Married Love is a masterful collection of short fiction from one of today’s most accomplished storytellers. These tales showcase the qualities for which Tessa Hadley has long been praised: her humor, warmth, and psychological acuity; her powerful, precise, and emotionally dense prose; […]
Kevin Killeen, author of Never Hug a Nun, on tour in December ’12/January ’13
About Never Hug a Nun Paperback: 182 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press (December 8, 2012) AUTHOR’S MISSPENT BOYHOOD INSPIRES COMIC NOVEL ABOUT GROWING UP IN WEBSTER GROVES From first crushes and cafeteria lines, hidden forts and secret passwords, learning the Cub Scout oath and robbing the Ben Franklin, to hanging out on the train tracks, running from the police, […]
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 […]
Louise Erdrich, author of The Round House, on tour October/November 2012
About The Round House The Round House has just been named a National Book Award Finalist! • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper (October 2, 2012) One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized […]
Danny Wallace, author of Charlotte Street, on tour October 2012
About Charlotte Street • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 23, 2012) Jason Priestley (no, not that Jason Priestley) is in a rut. He gave up his teaching job to write snarky reviews of cheap restaurants for the free newspaper you take but don’t read. He lives above a video-game store, between a Polish newsstand and […]
Roland Merullo, author of Lunch with Buddha, on tour November/December 2012
About Lunch with Buddha Paperback – 392 pages Publisher: AJAR Contemporaries (November 13, 2012) On the surface, Lunch with Buddha is a story about family. Otto Ringling and his sister Cecelia could not be more different. He’s just turned 50, an editor of food books at a prestigious New York publishing house, a man with a nice home in the […]
Erica Bauermeister, author of The Lost Art of Mixing, on tour November 2012
About The Lost Art of Mixing Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (January 24, 2013) National bestselling author Erica Bauermeister returns to the enchanting world of The School of Essential Ingredients in this luminous sequel. Lillian and her restaurant have a way of drawing people together. There’s Al, the accountant who finds meaning in numbers and ritual; […]