About Cutting Teeth Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (May 13, 2014) One of the most anticipated debut novels of 2014, Cutting Teeth takes place one late-summer weekend as a group of thirty-something couples gather at a shabby beach house on Long Island, their young children in tow. . Nicole, the hostess, struggles to keep her OCD behaviors […]
Natalia Sylvester, author of Chasing the Sun, on tour June 2014
About Chasing the Sun Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: New Harvest (June 3, 2014) Partially inspired by her grandfather’s kidnapping in Peru, CHASING THE SUN: A Novel (Lake Union/New Harvest; on sale June 3, 2014) is Natalia Sylvester’s suspenseful debut about a man whose wife is kidnapped just as their marriage is falling apart. After going out for […]
Katharine Britton, author of Little Island, on tour May/June 2014
About Little Island Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Berkley Trade (September 3, 2013) Grace Flowers By the water Have fun! These are Grace’s mother’s last words – left behind on a note. A note that Grace interprets as instructions for her memorial service. And so her far-flung clan will gather at their inn on Little Island, Maine, to […]
Sandra Hunter, author of Losing Touch, on tour July 2014
About Losing Touch Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Oneworld Publications (July 15, 2014) After Indian Independence Arjun brings his family to London, but hopes of a better life rapidly dissipate. His wife Sunila spends all day longing for a nice tea service, his son suddenly hates anything Indian, and his daughter, well, that’s a whole other […]
Doug Cooper, author of Outside In, on tour April/May 2014
About Outside In Hardcover: 253 pages Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press (August 13, 2013) From Memorial Day until the student workers and tourists leave in the fall, the island community of Put-In-Bay, Ohio, thrives on alcohol, drugs, sexual experimentation, and any other means of forgetting responsibilities. To Brad Shepherd–recently forced out of his job as a junior […]
Lauren Owen, author of The Quick, on tour May 2014
About The Quick Hardcover: 544 pages Publisher: Random House (June 17, 2014) An astonishing debut, a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London. London, 1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat. Through this new friendship, he […]
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 […]
Michael Landweber, author of We, on tour February 2014
About We Paperback: 194 pages Publisher: Coffeetown Press (September 1, 2013) After an accident, forty-year-old Ben Arnold regains consciousness in the kitchen of the house he grew up in. Only he feels different, lighter somehow. Something is horribly wrong. Ben is swept into the arms of his mother, who he hasn’t seen in twenty years. She calls […]
Nancy Horan, author of Under the Wide and Starry Sky, on tour February 2014
About Under the Wide and Starry Sky Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (January 21, 2014) From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny. At the age of thirty-five, Fanny van de Grift […]
Anish Majumdar, author of The Isolation Door, on tour February 2014
About The Isolation Door Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Ravana Press (February 4, 2014) From an award-winning journalist comes a haunting debut novel examining the inner world of the mentally ill and those within their gravitational pull. Neil Kapoor, 23, is desperate to create a life beyond the shadow of his mother’s schizophrenia. Years of […]