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A transnational feminist novel about human trafficking and motherhood from an award-winning author.Saddled with student loans, medical debt, and the sudden news of her infertility after a major car accident, Shannon, an African American woman, follows her boyfriend to Morocco in search of relief. There, in the cobblestoned medina of Marrakech, she finds a toddler in a pink jacket whose face mirrors her own. With the help of her boyfriend and a...

The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl's fantastical sea voyage to rescue her fatherThe House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadrami girl in Mombasa. When her fisherman father goes missing, Aisha takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton to rescue him. She is guided by a talking scholar's cat (and soon crows, goats, and other animals all have their say, too). On this journey Aisha meets thr...

Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a lyrical meditation on family, place, and inheritanceNames for Light traverses time and memory to weigh three generations of a family's history against a painful inheritance of postcolonial violence and racism. In spare, lyric paragraphs framed by white space, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint explores home, belonging, and identity by revisiting the cities in which her parents and grandparents lived. As she ...

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An astonishing new novel of loss and grief from "one of our culture's preeminent novelists" (Los Angeles Times)Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area-the geological history of a cave forty-four meters above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon-he is a laconic man who plays chess with his daughter, trades puns with his wife while she does yoga, and dodges committee work at the col...

In Joseph Campana's debut collection, starring Audrey Hepburn, icons of public consumption speak in the language of private devotion. "Encourage emulation. Inspire idolatry. Be a muse, be a nymph, be a sprite, bewitch me. Rise from obscurity. Set trends. Break habits. Make statements. Count blessings. Distribute kindnesses. Arouse devotion. Devote yourself to nobility. Ascend, ascend, ascend." -from "How to Be a Star

William Kittredge's relationship to the spare, often unforgiving Western landscape is fraught with contradictions. Having grown up on a cattle ranch in Oregon, he has an intimate connection to the vast landscape that was once vital to his family's trade. He has also witnessed, over many decades, the depletion of the West's natural resources due to overuse. These luminous essays move effortlessly from the personal to the political. With grace a...

Swirling like eddies in a river come the poems of Alice Oswald, who has quickly become one of the premier British poets writing today. "Spacecraft Voyager 1" collects poetry from across her career --new poems, selections from her first and more recent books, and the entirety of her masterwork to date, "Dart, " winner of the 2002 T. S. Eliot Prize. Oswald's speaker--always curious, often whimsical, sometimes brash--becomes the river itself, as ...

Adams breathed through the thick weave of his pulse. Hobbs. Again. His return likely meant trouble. Care and trouble. "The uneasy friendship between Fremont Adams and C. D. Hobbs worked best when both men had a job to do, when they could fall into the rhythm of hard labor. Neglected by his mother at an early age, Hobbs found his way into the Adams family. But everyone could tell he was always a bit "off." Fremont resigned himself to watchin...

Paul Lisicky remembers being not much like other boys his age, but rather the awkward thirteen-year-old with "arms thick as drinking straws, " who composes tunes in his head that he might later send to Folk Mass Today or to the producers of The Partridge Family. Born into a family whose incremental success bumps them up a notch from their immigrant upbringing and into suburban America, Paul puts his creative, undaunted energy into drawing intr...

Coomer is clearly an author of serious talent." -The Washington Post Book WorldInhabiting an island off the coast of Maine left to her by her great-uncle Arno, Hannah finds her life as a dedicated and solitary artist rudely interrupted one summer when a dog, matted with feathers and seaweed, arrives with the tide. He is only the first of a series of unexpected visitors and is soon followed by a teenager running from an abusive father, a half s...

On January 20, 2009, Elizabeth Alexander served as the fourth ever inaugural poet and a central participant in one of the most closely watched inaugurations in American history. Selected by Barack Obama, Alexander composed and delivered her original poem "Praise Song for the Day" to an audience of millions, and now the poem can be read and savored for posterity. Printed on heavy, uncoated stock, with French flaps, and a silver foil stamp, this...

In this second book in the "Graywolf Forum Series", 13 writers examine the joy, obsession, and sacrifice of sports, ranging from baseball to boxing. Contributors include Jonis Agee, David Foster Wallace, James A. McPherson, and others.

An innovative and engaging nonfiction debut by "an original new voice" ("Publishers Weekly") and the winner of the 2006 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize In this sparkling nonfiction debut, Ander Monson uses unexpectedly nonliterary forms--the index, the Harvard Outline, the mathematical proof--to delve into an equally surprising mix of obsessions: disc golf, the history of mining in northern Michigan, car washes, topology, and more. He reflects...

In 12 far-reaching and intimate essays, Birkerts reflects upon his first readings of classic texts, including "The Catcher in the Rye" and "Lolita, " and what later encounters reveal about time, memory, and the murmuring transistors of selfhood.

The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of "What Narcissism Means to Me, " explores metaphor, tone, rhetorical and compositional strategies with the vigorous, conversational style less of the scholar than of the serious enthusiast and practitioner.

Beautiful essays by Fanny Howe, a poet praised for her "private quest through the metaphysical universe . . . the results are startling and honest" (The New York Times Book Review)Fanny Howe's richly contemplative The Winter Sun is a collection of essays on childhood, language, and meaning by one of America's most original contemporary poets. Through a collage of reflections on people, places, and times that have been part of her life, Howe sh...

Now in paperback, the career-spanning retrospective by Albert Goldbarth, the only poet to have won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry twice Now his, the onlyoverhead turned on. Now nothing else existed: only him, and the book, and the light thrown over his shouldersas luxuriously as a cashmere shawl.--from "Shawl" Albert Goldbarth has created an unmistakable signature style--learned, copious, hilarious, and heartbreaking. "The Ki...