A plane falls from the sky as a couple argues in their yard, the whine of its engines drowning out their voices, parts of the craft shearing off the roof of their house. A few miles away, a young man waits for his girlfriend at the airport, while in a lon
The first substantial collection of short fiction from "a writer with enough electricity to light up the country" (Ann Patchett)"I guess the things that scare you are the things that are almost normal," observes one narrator in this collection of efferves
A haunting, enigmatic novel about a woman who is given a second chance—and isn’t sure whether she really wants it.Elisa Brown is driving back from her annual, somber visit to her son Silas’s grave when something changes. Actually, everything changes
Contemporary short stories enacting giddy, witty revenge on the documents that define and dominate our lives.In our bureaucratized culture, we're inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of
Castle by J. Robert Lennon is a mesmerizing novel about memory, guilt, power, and violenceIn the late winter of 2006, I returned to my home town and bought 612 acres of land on the far western edge of the county." So begins, innocuously enough, J. Robert
Happy Masters is a megalomaniacal entrepreneur, a shrewd negotiator, and procurer of other people’s lives. And she is also the mastermind behind Happy Girls, the phenomenally successful doll company. With a tenacious grasp on her life’s goals, Happy M
Twenty-two of today's most talented writers (and comics fans) unite in Who Can Save Us Now?, an anthology featuring brand-new superheroes equipped for the threats and challenges of the twenty-first century -- with a few supervillains thrown in for good me
