About The Year of the Gadfly • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (May 8, 2012) Storied Mariana Academy was founded with a serious honor code, its reputation unsullied for decades. Now Prisom’s Party threatens its placid halls. A budding journalist whose only confidant is the chain-smoking specter of Edward R. Murrow, Iris […]
Sarah McCoy, author of The Baker’s Daughter, on tour February/March 2012
About The Baker’s Daughter • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Crown (January 24, 2012) In 1945, Elsie Schmidt was a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she was for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country […]
Dorothea Benton Frank, author of Folly Beach, on tour January 2012
About Folly Beach • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 27, 2011) Folly Beach, South Carolina, with its glistening beaches, laid-back Southern charm, and enticing Gullah tradition, is the land of Cate Cooper’s childhood, the place where all the ghosts of her past roam freely. Now, thanks to a newly deceased husband […]
Jennifer Haigh, author of Faith, on tour January/February 2012
To celebrate the release of the critically acclaimed Faith, Jennifer Haigh’s Mrs. Kimble, The Condition, and Baker Towers will also be on tour. About Faith • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (January 17, 2012) It is the spring of 2002 and a perfect storm has hit Boston. Across the city’s archdiocese, […]
Jessica Keener, author of Night Swim, on tour January/February 2012
About Night Swim • Paperback: 284 pages • Publisher: Fiction Std (January 10, 2012) Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kunitz lives in a posh, suburban world of 1970 Boston. From the outside, her parents’ lifestyle appears enviable – a world defined by cocktail parties, expensive cars, and live-in maids to care for their children – but inside their […]
Allison Winn Scotch, author of The Song Remains the Same, on tour March/April 2012
About The Song Remains the Same Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (April 12, 2012) One of only two survivors of a plane crash, Nell Slattery wakes in the hospital with no memory of the horrific experience-or who she is, or was. Now she must piece together both body and mind, with the help of family and […]
Leora Skolkin-Smith, author of Hystera, on tour March 2012
About Hystera • Paperback: 194 pages • Publisher: Fiction Std (November 16, 2011) Set in the turbulent 1970s when Patty Hearst became Tanya the Revolutionary, Hystera is a timeless story of madness, yearning, and identity. After a fatal accident takes her father away, Lillian Weill blames herself for the family tragedy. Tripping through failed love affairs with men […]
Matthew Pearl, author of The Technologists, on tour February/March 2012
About The Technologists Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Random House (February 21, 2012) The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl’s spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word “technology” represents a bold and frightening new concept. The fight for the future will hinge on . . . THE […]
Jennifer duBois, author of A Partial History of Lost Causes, on tour March/April 2012
About A Partial History of Lost Causes Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: The Dial Press (March 20, 2012) In Jennifer duBois’s mesmerizing and exquisitely rendered debut novel, a long-lost letter links two disparate characters, each searching for meaning against seemingly insurmountable odds. In St. Petersburg, Russia, world chess champion Aleksandr Bezetov begins a quixotic quest. With his renowned […]
Robert Barclay, author of More Than Words Can Say, on tour January 2012
About More Than Words Can Say • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 20, 2011) From the author of If Wishes Were Horses comes a novel of long-buried secrets and self-discovery, showing us that sometimes what goes unsaid is more powerful than words. . . . Chelsea Enright never expected to inherit […]