About Two Sisters • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (March 4, 2014) One family, two sisters, a lifetime of secrets . . . The third child in a family that wanted only two, Muriel Sullivant has always been an outsider. Short, dark-haired, and round, she worships her beautiful blond sister, Pia, and envies the close bond […]
Tessa Hadley, author of Clever Girl, on tour March 2014
About Clever Girl • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Harper (March 4, 2014) Like Alice Munro and Colm Tóibín, Tessa Hadley possesses the remarkable ability to transform the mundane into the sublime—an eye for the beauty, innocence, and irony of ordinary lives that elevates domestic fiction to literary art. In Clever Girl, she offers the indelible story of one woman’s […]
Matthew Quick, author of The Good Luck of Right Now, on tour February 2014
About The Good Luck of Right Now • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper (February 11, 2014) Call it fate Call it synchronicity Call it an act of God Call it . . . The Good Luck of Right Now For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea […]
Katharina Hagena, author of The Taste of Apple Seeds, on tour February 2014
About The Taste of Apple Seeds • Paperback: 256 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 4, 2014) The internationally bestselling tale of love, loss, and memories that run deep When Iris unexpectedly inherits her grandmother’s house in the country, she also inherits the painful memories that live there. Iris gives herself a one-week stay at the old […]
James Scott, author of The Kept, on tour January 2014
About The Kept • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper (January 7, 2014) In the winter of 1897, Elspeth Howell treks across miles of snow and ice to the isolated farmstead in upstate New York where she and her husband have raised their five children. Her midwife’s salary is tucked into the toes of her boots, and […]
Kodi Scheer, author of Incendiary Girls: Stories, on tour April 2014
About Incendiary Girls: Stories Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Little A/New Harvest (April 8, 2014) Kodi Scheer’s debut story collection INCENDIARY GIRLS explores our baser instincts with vivid imagination and dark humor. With sharp and tender language, Scheer interrogates our expectations of reality, melding the surreal – visions of humans transforming into animals – with the emotions of everyday. In […]
Sarah Cornwell, author of What I Had Before I Had You, on tour January 2014
About What I Had Before I Had You • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper (January 7, 2014) Written in radiant prose and with stunning psychological acuity, award-winning author Sarah Cornwell’s What I Had Before I Had You is a deeply poignant story that captures the joys and sorrows of growing up and learning to let go. Olivia Reed was […]
Christopher J. Yates, author of Black Chalk, on tour April 2014
About Black Chalk Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Random House UK; First Edition edition (April 1, 2014) One game. Six students. Five survivors. It was only ever meant to be a game. A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University. But […]
Ron Parsons, author of The Sense of Touch, on tour January/February 2014
About The Sense of Touch • Paperback: 252 pages • Publisher: Aqueous Books; 1st edition (May 1, 2013) Old friends uncomfortably reunited and lovers who cling to their distance from one another; disappearing fathers, fiercely loving grandfathers, and strangers who pass through and radically change lives…These are among the characters who populate the rugged Midwestern landscapes of the mesmerizing […]
Willy Vlautin, author of The Free, on tour February 2014
About The Free • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (February 4, 2014) In his heartbreaking yet hopeful fourth novel, award-winning author Willy Vlautin demonstrates his extraordinary talent for illuminating the disquiet of modern American life, captured in the experiences of three memorable characters looking for meaning in distressing times. Severely wounded in the Iraq war, […]