About The Good Muslim • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 14, 2012) In the dying days of a brutal civil war in Bangladesh, Sohail Haque stumbles upon an abandoned building. Inside he finds a young woman whose story will haunt him for a lifetime to come. Almost a decade later, Sohail’s sister, Maya, returns home after […]
Yvette Edwards, author of A Cupboard Full of Coats, on tour August 2012
About A Cupboard Full of Coats • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: Amistad; Original edition (July 31, 2012) Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize A Kirkus Best Book of the Year Plagued by guilt, paralyzed by shame, Jinx has spent the years since her mother’s death alone, estranged from her husband, withdrawn from her son, and entrenched in a childhood home filled […]
Lucy Wood, author of Diving Belles: And Other Stories, on tour August 2012
About Diving Belles: And Other Stories • Paperback: 240 pages • Publisher: Mariner Books (August 7, 2012) In the tradition of Angela Carter, this luminous, spellbinding debut reinvents the stuff of myth. Straying husbands lured into the sea by mermaids can be fetched back, for a fee. Trees can make wishes come true. Houses creak and keep […]
Thrity Umrigar, author of The World We Found, on tour August 2012
To celebrate the release of the paperback of The World We Found, two backlist titles will also be on tour: The Weight of Heaven and The Space Between Us. About The World We Found • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (July 31, 2012) As university students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta […]
Emily Arsenault, author of Miss Me When I’m Gone, on tour August 2012
About Miss Me When I’m Gone • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (July 31, 2012) Author Gretchen Waters made a name for herself with her bestseller Tammyland—a memoir about her divorce and her admiration for country music icons Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, and Dolly Parton that was praised as a “honky-tonk Eat, Pray, Love.” But her […]
Alex Bledsoe, author of Wake of the Bloody Angel, on tour August/September 2012
About Wake of the Bloody Angel Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (July 3, 2012) “Bledsoe’s fourth epic fantasy noir featuring “sword jockey” Eddie LaCrosse (after 2011’s Dark Jenny) is action-packed and witty…’ —Publishers Weekly Set sale on the high seas with swashbuckling sword jockey Eddie LaCrosse in WAKE OF THE BLOODY ANGEL (A […]
E. J. Levy, author of Love, in Theory, on tour September/October 2012
About Love, in Theory • Hardcover: 224 pages • Publisher: University of Georgia Press (September 15, 2012) Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction In this funny, brainy, and thoroughly engaging debut collection, an award-winning writer considers contemporary romance through the lens of scholarly theories to illuminate love in the Information Age. In ten captivating and tender […]
Barbara Claypole White, author of The Unfinished Garden, on tour August/September 2012
About The Unfinished Garden • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Harlequin MIRA (August 28, 2012) The Unfinished Garden is a love story about grief, OCD, and dirt, set in the forests of North Carolina and the woodland gardens of Southern England. James Nealy is haunted by irrational fears, inescapable compulsions. A successful software developer, he’s thrown himself into a […]
Kathleen McCleary, author of A Simple Thing, on tour July/August 2012
About A Simple Thing • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (July 24, 2012) When Susannah Delaney discovers her young son is being bullied and her adolescent daughter is spinning out of control, she moves them to remote, rustic Sounder Island to live for a year. A simple island existence—with no computers or electricity and only a […]
Christopher Wakling, author of What I Did, on tour July/August 2012
About What I Did • Paperback:288 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (July 17, 2012) “This is a story about a terrible thing which happens to me. I have to warn you that nobody is bad or good here, or rather everyone is a bit bad and a bit good and the bad and the […]