About Scent of Darkness • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: Pantheon (January 29, 2013) In Margot Berwin’s hotly anticipated second novel she takes us somewhere darker, deep into the bayous of Louisiana, to a world of fortune-tellers, soothsayers, and potent elixirs: a magical, seductive story about the power of scent–and what happens when a perfume renders a […]
Susan McBride, author of The Truth About Love and Lightning, on tour February 2013
About The Truth About Love and Lightning • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (February 12, 2013) The Truth About Love and Lighting is a deliciously emotional story of family, forgiveness, love, and magic from Susan McBride. A lie that Gretchen Brink told 40 years ago comes back to haunt her when a tornado […]
Susan Speranza, author of The Tale of Lucia Grandi, on tour March 2013
About The Tale of Lucia Grandi • Paperback: 426 pages • Publisher: Brook House Press (October 20, 2012) When an old woman is asked to recount the story of her life, she tells an intense and poignant tale about growing up in and surviving a warring suburban family during the 1950s and ’60s. Written as a memoir, each chapter […]
Megan Caldwell, author of Vanity Fare, on tour December 2012/January 2013
About Vanity Fare • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (December 26, 2012) Molly Hagan is overwhelmed. Her husband left her for a younger, blonder woman; her six-year-old son is questioning her authority, and now so is she. In order to pay her Brooklyn rent and keep her son supplied with Pokémon and […]
Hester Kaplan, author of The Tell, on tour January 2013
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 […]