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 […]
Anne Leigh Parrish, author of Our Love Could Light the World, on tour January 2014
About Our Love Could Light the World Paperback: 202 pages Publisher: She Writes Press (May 23, 2013) You know the Dugans. They’re that scrappy family down the street. Their five children run free, they never clean up after their dog, and the husband hasn’t earned a cent in years. You wouldn’t want them for neighbors, but from […]
Jennifer Cody Epstein, author of The Gods of Heavenly Punishment, on tour January/February 2014
About The Gods of Heavenly Punishment Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (January 13, 2014) One summer night in prewar Japan, eleven-year-old Billy Reynolds takes snapshots at his parent’s dinner party. That same evening his father Anton–a prominent American architect–begins a torrid affair with the wife of his master carpenter. A world away in […]
Rachel Joyce, author of Perfect, on tour December 2013/January 2014
About Perfect Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Random House (January 7, 2014) A spellbinding novel that will resonate with readers of Mark Haddon, Louise Erdrich, and John Irving, Perfect tells the story of a young boy who is thrown into the murky, difficult realities of the adult world with far-reaching consequences. Byron Hemmings wakes to a morning that […]
Rebecca Walker, author of Adé, on tour October/November 2013
About Adé: A Love Story Hardcover: 112 pages Publisher: Little A / New Harvest (October 29, 2013) Known worldwide for her brilliant, frank memoirs, Rebecca Walker returns with a poetic, lushly written debut novel that is sure to garner major attention. Exploring the themes of memory, longing, passion, and loss, Walker gives us the story of […]