NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 11, 2011
"Richly textured, compassionate and heartbreaking."
A disturbing, mesmerizing personal narrative about growing up with a brilliant but schizophrenic mother.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 11, 2011
"Lovely and lyrical--a celebration of language and another virtuoso performance from a writer who does indeed deserve to be better known."
Elegant, lapidary stories that beg Ann Patchett's question in the introduction: "Why isn't Edith Pearlman famous?"
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 26, 2011
"A highly informative though rarely analytical take on one of America's most thriving cultural communities. See Jonathan Gill's upcoming Harlem (2011) for more comprehensive coverage."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2011
"A dryly humorous memoir of love, travel and wide-eyed idealism."
Chronicle of the chaotic year during which two-time Pushcart Prize–winning author Unferth (English/Wesleyan Univ.;
Vacation, 2008, etc.) and her then-boyfriend went from being college coeds to aspiring communist revolutionaries in Central America.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 8, 2011
"Determining whether the novel's main character is hero, villain or somewhere in between might require the reader to start over with the book after finishing it."
A masterful command of narrative voice distinguishes a debut novel that requires patience and rewards it.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 18, 2011
"Splendidly researched, sensibly argued and compassionately told."
Jasanoff (History/Harvard Univ.; Edge of Empire: Life, Culture, and Conquest in the East 1750–1850, 2005) examines the effects of the American Revolution on those whose loyalty to the Crown compelled them to flee the new United States.
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