About The Exiles Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Little A / New Harvest (July 2, 2013) Nate, a mid-level investment banker on Wall Street, and his longtime girlfriend Emily can no longer afford their cramped apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Tired of trying to keep up with their jet-set friends, they jump at a job offer for […]
Kristiana Kahakauwila, author of This is Paradise, on tour July 2013
About This is Paradise: Stories Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Hogarth (July 9, 2013) A visceral, poignant, and elegantly gritty work of debut fiction set in Hawaii, in the vein of Junot Diaz’s Drown and Danielle Evans’s Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self This is the real Hawai`i: life is not the paradisical adventure that honeymooners or movie-goers see. Danger […]
Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, on tour May 2013
About A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Hogarth (May 7, 2013) In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her father is abducted by Russian forces. Fearing for her life, she flees with their neighbor Akhmed–a failed physician–to the bombed-out hospital, […]
Kate Worsley, author of She Rises, on tour in June/July 2013
About She Rises Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition (June 18, 2013) A panoramic historical novel of love, adventure, and identity—with an astonishing twist. It is 1740 and Louise Fletcher, a young maid, has been warned of the lure of the sea for as long as she can remember—after all, it stole […]
Jenny Davidson, author of The Magic Circle, on tour April/May 2013
About The Magic Circle Paperback: 208 pages Publisher: New Harvest; 1 edition (March 26, 2013) Three young female academics design daring, boundary-pushing games—until one of them goes too far, in this contemporary thriller by an acclaimed Columbia University professor In the genre-bending literary thriller THE MAGIC CIRCLE, by Columbia University professor Jenny Davidson (Amazon Publishing/New Harvest, on […]
Jennifer Cody Epstein, author of The Gods of Heavenly Punishment, on tour May 2013
About The Gods of Heavenly Punishment Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company (March 11, 2013) A lush, exquisitely-rendered meditation on war, The God of Heavenly Punishment tells the story of several families, American and Japanese, their loves and infidelities, their dreams and losses, and how they are all connected by one of the […]
Joanna Hershon, author of A Dual Inheritance, on tour May 2013
About A Dual Inheritance Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (May 7, 2013) For readers of Rules of Civility and The Marriage Plot, Joanna Hershon’s A Dual Inheritance is an engrossing novel of passion, friendship, betrayal, and class—and their reverberations across generations. Autumn 1962: Ed Cantowitz and Hugh Shipley meet in their final year at Harvard. Ed is far removed from […]
Jack Wolf, author of The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones, on tour April 2013
About The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones Paperback: 560 pages Publisher: Penguin Books (March 26, 2013) Explosive, transgressive and wildly inventive, Jack Wolf’s novel THE TALE OF RAW HEAD AND BLOODY BONES (Penguin Original; March 26, 2013; 978-0-14-312382-8; $16.00; also available as an ebook) is arrestingly authentic. UK based author Jack Wolf, who wrote […]
Susan Tekulve, author of In the Garden of Stone, on tour May/June 2013
About In the Garden of Stone Paperback 260 pages Publication Date: May-2013 Hub City Press Shortly before daybreak in War, West Virginia, a passing train derails and spills an avalanche of coal over sixteen-year-old Emma Palmisano’s house, trapping her sleeping family inside. In Susan Tekulve’s new novel, the year is 1924, and the remote mines of […]
Vincent Lam, author of The Headmaster’s Wager, on tour September/October 2012
About The Headmaster’s Wager Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Hogarth (August 14, 2012) Percival Chen is the wealthy headmaster of the most respected English-language academy in Saigon in 1966. Chen is fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage, and quick to spot the business opportunities rife in a divided country. He builds a rich life for himself and his […]