"In the Hispanic American classic Empire of Dreams, Giannina Braschi calls for a revolution in poetry--a revolution against the Latin American Boom. New York City becomes the site of liberation for it
"In the Hispanic American classic Empire of Dreams, Giannina Braschi calls for a revolution in poetry--a revolution against the Latin American Boom. New York City becomes the site of liberation for it
In a sweeping family saga, teenager narrator Simone enters into a forbidden, all-too-adult relationship, in a book that looks back at four of Simone's Vietnamese ancestors. Reissue.
Do-a Luz must abandon her aristocratic life in nineteenth-century Madrid and begin anew in rural Andalusia. But what she cannot leave behind is her history: her illegitimate birth that defines who she
I see I am soaring too high, so I shall descend and speak more plainly. So writes nineteenth-century Spanish author Juan Valera in "Cordovan Woman," one of a literary sextet found in the translation o
A few months after doctors tell him he has only a year to live, a precocious fifteen-year-old from a small town in Virginia has an intense reaction to The catcher in the rye. Deriving inspiration from
In sci-fi author Sam Landstrom MetaGame, he creates a believable but disturbing world with fewer than six degrees of separation. In fact, every single person, product, pastime, and proclivity humans t
"Free spirit Skyla Plinka has found the love and stability she always wanted in her reliable husband Thomas. Settling into her new family and roles as wife and mother, life in rural Wisconsin is satis
A new resident in Harlem tries to clean up his block, but the effort brings media attention and, as more affluent tenants move in, he mobilizes a campaign to return the block to its original residents
Genna Colon finds comfort in her dreams for the future in spite of the drug dealers in her building, as she makes wishes every day for a different life, until her wish is granted and she travels back
United States of Banana takes place at the Statue of Liberty in post-9/11 New York City, where Hamlet, Zarathustra, and Giannina are on a quest to free the Puerto Rican prisoner Segismundo. Segismundo
This groundbreaking novel, set in New York City during the 1990s, is guaranteed to be unlike any literary experience you have ever had. Acclaimed Puerto Rican author Giannini Braschi has crafted this
After her law firm becomes embroiled in an international scandal and her boyfriend begins asking questions, Mimi Sean Young, once known as Mimi Suong Giang, must confront the life-changing traumas she
After the Germans invade Belgium in 1940, Jewish chemistry professor Andre Severin, his brother and their families flee south to the French countryside where they are welcomed and protected by the Heg
After breaking off her engagement, thirty-something Andi Cutrone yields New England to her ex and flees home to Long Island. There, she devotes her time to teaching in the writing program at Brooklyn
After she wakes up in a storage locker, bound and gagged, Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels soon comes to realize that she has been abducted by her arch nemesis, a twisted serial killer known only as "Mr. K."
In 1986, the universe suddenly bifurcated. Thirty-five years later, Felix spends his days lunching at Coconut Cafae and dreaming of a successful writing career. Everything changes when his Aunt Henrie
The author describes the political and economic conditions in Argentina during the time he was the head of the country's central bank, the circumstances behind his resignation, and the effects of the
Stalina Folskaya leaves behind her painful past as she flees St. Petersburg, Russia, where she was trained as a chemist, and tries to begin a new life in Hartford, Connecticut, where she takes a job a
Paul, a Chinese American detective, and his eccentric sidekick Nelson seek redemption in Wilmington, Delaware, as they hunt for the person behind a series of brutal serial murders that seem to have no
In this gritty noir novel, John Rector weaves an intensely sinister tale. Dexter McCray is a farmer with a dark past that continues to haunt him. As a man struggling with alcoholism, he's used to bein
The story is loosely inspired by the life of Olivier de Sanderval, who, intent on becoming an explorer for most of his life, finally set sale for Africa in 1879 after turning 40. As Monenembo tells it
When his superiors dismiss a reported assassination plot on newly elected President Abraham Lincoln, Charles Rook, the head of security, risks his career in order to investigate the situation and trac
“Basing her story on her own family narratives and a deep understanding of Italian Americans, [Fabiano] paints a vivid portrait not just of immigrants’ lives in the first ten years of the
When her family relocated to rural China in 2003, Kay Bratt was thrust into a new world, one where boys were considered more valuable than girls and poverty and the one-child policy had created an epi
John Allen wants to be a wrangler more than anything else in the world. He has toiled in Kansas coal mines and worked as a gunsmith's apprentice, but nothing draws him like the notion of being called
Had Josh Barkley known the trouble he would soon face, he and his sidekick, Mike Gray-Eyes, would have never tied up in front of the sheriff's office in Junction Flats. But they did, and faster than
From the intimacy of small town America to big city life, from World War II to 9/11, In the Meantime vividly encapsulates an unforgettable era.On a hot summer's day in 1931, three five-year-olds m
Failing Paris is the story of a week in the life of Sabine Wilcox, the 19-year-old student who has left the stifling rural existence of the American Southwest in exchange for a year in Paris. But the
Mitch Ellsworth wants a new, uneventful life. With a history that includes Civil War service with the notorious Quantrill raiders, post-war banditry and a consequential stretch in a Missouri prison, h
Wrongly kicked out of the Confederate Army for dereliction of duty, JD Thornton sets out to run down Hugh Garrett, the corporal who accused him. In the middle of his search, he encounters Lucy and Flo
Young James Whipwell believes there is more to life than working on his father's farm in Indiana. The Civil War has been over for five years, the transcontinental railroad is opening the West, and he
This work brilliantly fuses travel narrative with history and cultural studies—yet reads like a novel. It’s also a love story that is in no way fictional. A fan letter to the author from a woman named
A long overdue retelling of New Grub Street—George Gissing’s classic satire of the Victorian literary marketplace—Grub chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a group of young novelists living in
There are good people and bad on both sides of the tracks that divide Laureate from 'Colored Town'. Our instruction in that hard truth comes as we follow two African-American teens, Cilla Handsom and
Ekaterina has just arrived in an unnamed city at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela with a pasteboard suitcase, a kerchief that covers her lack of hair, and little more than a rudimentary
Latha Bourne, the attractive postmistress of Stay More — a small town in the Arkansas Ozarks — didn’t expect to see Every Dill again. More than ten years before, he had raped her, robbed the bank, and
Every time Hoppy enters a town in his truck, he is greeted with delight and anticipation, showered with warmth, offered meals, and more often than not, pretty girls trying to catch more than just his
