Fiction

In this striking anthology 40 poets from the Soul Sister Revue reading series, including Evie Shockley, Hanif Abdurraqib, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Cathy Linh Che, José Olivarez, and Patricia Smith, commemorate culture, Motown, and community, while...

Ronnie's a Reaper. Officially she's a retrieval analyst for hell. But the demons and angels who would sell their souls for her job know what she really does for a living. She fetches lost cherubs, and gets to enjoy all the perks of life on earth in the...

I may have escaped Cail's delusions ... ... But my world is still on fire.It was a miracle when Ilyan pulled me from Cail's mind. Too bad the creepy bleeding walls, and broken bathroom from hell followed me back into reality. Now everything is so mixed...

For more information, visit McSweeneys.net Helen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, childless, college-educated, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. She's accepting a delivery from IKEA in her shared studio...

A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction Vern--seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised--flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she...

"A beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class, that flags the frank truth of the life of migrant workers for whom a flight to freedom can become the most finely woven trap."--JODI PICOULT, #1 New York Times bestselling...

New York Times Bestseller"Fans of Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito, characters created by the author's father, Tony Hillerman, will savor this multilayered story of suspense, with its background of contemporary environmental vs. development issues." --...

At age forty-five, Dr. Neil Taylor is an eligible bachelor, living a seemingly satisfied existence as a deacon of his church and director of Kingdom Builder's Academy. But despite outward appearances, Neil harbors secret pains that have caused him to...

One would think that facing down the king of ghouls and a mad necromancer would be enough to earn a guy a nice break. But Ze'ev, Jewish exorcist and monster hunter, has no such luck.Something is stalking the Jewish children of Austin, something vicious...

An overwhelmed new mom discovers unexpected parallels between life in twenty-first-century America and her grandmother's account of their family's escape from the Nazis in this sharp, heartfelt novel. "A fresh perspective--one that's both haunting and...

Jules is young, urban, an MBA on the road to success. While he waits in his new office on the first morning of his new job, he knows only that his life is progressing exactly on schedule. Also waiting for Jules is his new supervisor, an odd,...

Linda is a young, hardworking single mom struggling to get by from paycheck to paycheck. When she learns that her son Dre needs a kidney transplant, her family's already precarious financial situation takes a turn for the worst. Then she discovers that...

Eddie is arrogant, quite vain, and slick at the mouth - or simply confident, discerning, and unafraid to speak his mind, if you ask him. Astrid is annoyingly perky, unpolished, and a little delusional about Eddie's attraction to her - or, according to...

In the novella, Something About Ann, and the short stories that follow, a group of soldiers who faced a traumatic experience in Vietnam remain close after returning to the States. Violence and turmoil continue to haunt them, though, as they attempt to...

Meet Kara, a young detective on a dubious mission to locate the person that assassinated her father when she was a child. No child should witness a parent violently murdered before their eyes. This horrific tragedy she suffered has caused Kara to become...

A picture perfect landscape, where dreams come to die... Meet Kara, a young detective on a dubious mission to locate the person that assassinated her father when she was a child. No child should witness a parent violently murdered before their eyes...