New & Reissued Fiction RUBY: A NOVEL by Cynthia Bond
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xquisitely written and suffused with the pastoral beauty of the rural South, Ruby is a transcendent novel of passion and courage. “Channeling the lyrical phantasmagoria of early Toni Morrison and the sexual and racial brutality of 20th-century east Texas, Cynthia Bond has created a moving and indelible portrait of a fallen woman . . . Bond traffics in extremely difficult subjects with a grace and bigheartedness that makes for an accomplished, enthralling read.” —San Francisco Chronicle Hogarth • TR • 978-0-804-18824-1 352 pp. • $16.00
Nominated for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize An Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 Selection
GET IN TROUBLE: STORIES By Kelly Link
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he has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” and by Neil Gaiman as “a national treasure.” Now Kelly Link’s eagerly awaited new collection—her first for adult readers in a decade—proves indelibly that this bewitchingly original writer is among the finest we have. “Kelly Link’s prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next sentence to land. This is why we read, crave, need, can’t live without short stories.” —Téa Obreht
Random House • HC • 978-0-8041-7968-3 • 352pp. • $25.00
THE SCAPEGOAT: A NOVEL by Sophia Nikolaidou Translated by Karen Emmerich
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he Scapegoat is based on the real, unsolved murder of famed American journalist George Polk in Greece in the forties. “Intricate and suspenseful . . . While we follow Nikolaidou’s deeply satisfying plot, she also slyly poses some of the large questions of contemporary life: How do we value the individual against the state? What causes are worth lying for? Is justice ever done?” —Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street Melville House • HC • 978-1-61219-384-7 320 pp. • $24.95
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