FICTION
Released: Jan. 31, 2012
"A darkly funny and frequently heartbreaking portrait of life as one of America's have-nots."
Bright young girl must endure family dysfunction and sexual abuse while coming of age in a Reno trailer park during the late 1980s.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2012
"A fine first novel that enlivens familiar themes of parenthood and battles against nature."
A couple struggling to settle in the Alaskan wilderness is heartened by the arrival of the child of their dreams--or are they literally dreaming her?
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FICTION
Released: April 12, 2012
"Complex in theme, complex in narrative, this is a masterful literary exploration of the specter of conscience and the formidable cost of reconciliation."
In Flanery's debut literary fiction, Sam Leroux has a publisher's assignment to write the biography of a famous South African author, Clare Wald, imperious, reticent, evasive about her writing and disinclined to discuss her catastrophic personal life.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"War is hell in this novel of inspired absurdity. "
Hailed as heroes on a stateside tour before returning to Iraq, Bravo Squad discovers just what it has been fighting for.
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"Despite Shipstead's flair for language and scene setting, her characters are worse than cartoonishly unlikable--they are, with the exception of Dominique, yawn-provokingly uninteresting."
New England blue bloods suffer through three days of wedding festivities in Shipstead's debut, a bleak comedy of manners--think a modern-day Edith Wharton on downers.
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FICTION
Released: July 3, 2012
"Wilson displays an admirable Neil Gaiman-esque ambition that isn't quite matched by this oft-plodding tale."
Modern hacker culture and ancient Muslim mysticism collide in the debut work of fiction from Wilson, better known as a graphic novelist.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 7, 2012
"Although Heller creates with chilling efficiency the bleakness of a world largely bereft of life as we know it, he holds out some hope that human relationships can be redemptive."
A post-apocalyptic novel in which Hig, who only goes by this mononym, finds not only survival, but also the possibility of love.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 11, 2012
"Powers writes with a rawness that brings the sights and smells as well as the trauma and decay of war home to the reader. "
