"To say Amelia Gray belongs in the hiloriously inventive hollows of Ann Quin and Rikki Ducornet would be to miss her light. This book is gleaming evidence of the author as a trophy case unto herself,
Calendar of Regrets is a wildly inventive and visually rich collage of twelve interconnected narratives, one for each month of the year, all pertaining to notions of travel—through time, space, narrat
The landscape of this novel in storiesuJoseph Cardinale's first book-length work of fictionuis as familiar as childhood yet beguilingly surreal. Whether any person is the same from one moment to the n
Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize In The Year of the Rat, an artist returns to the dystopian city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother, only to find himself torn apart by
Trouble the Water moves among finely woven layers of time and place as it takes on a new and controversial theme in contemporary black writing, the search for family reconciliation. Twenty years after
Winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize In Natural Wonders, Jenny is given the task of assembling a memorial edition of her recently deceased husband Jonathan’s lecture seri
In this melancholy novel about a man on the brink of suicide, Stanley Crawford allows readers to question what it really means to be close to a person.Intimacy follows an unnamed narrator planning his
Alice is a motherless child, born to a motherless child, and raised with neither care nor grace. Her response to this multiple abandonment is a lifelong obsession with her best friend Ingrid, or Thing
"I am a ventriloquist for love," declares the narrator of The Charnel Imp, as he dares the reader to locate his voice in all the familiar places of human affection. Yet the narrative of Alan
A mystery in two voices, Dirtmouth recounts the grisly murder of a young woman on Blackman's Heath, an ancient execution site in the Irish bogs. A pair of archaeologists, the obese and decadent Kraft
Winner of FC2's Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize An imaginative, erotic rethinking of Bhopal’s disaster—and perhaps our own. On the night of December 2, as 1984 drew
Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction PrizeA grand tour of the edges of our lives, where glory and significance riot against the logic of living and the pall of tragedy.The Making S
A novel in three parts, linked by a single narrative of disaster, loss, and longing.TOKYO is an incisive, shape-shifting tour de force, a genre-bending mix of lyric prose, science fiction, horror, and
If art imitated capitalism, it would look like Borges' Travel Hemingway's Garage. In this secret guide to culture, Mark Axelrod has scoured Europe and the Americas, photographing products and business
A deliciously satirical postmodern romance, Seven Wives reimagines the search for an enduring passionate love. The too-much-loved narrator, Jack, an extension of the everyman hero of Baumbach's novel
