LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFrom the inimitable Rabih Alameddine - National Book Award finalist and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award - comes a tragicomic saga set in Lebanon, a modern story of family, memory, and the unbreakable (and insane) attachment of a son and his mother.
In this, the second of a two-part work on the life of Abraham Lincoln, Firedrake follows the exploits of young Ezra Cutshaw, a poor dirt farmer from Kentucky.
In his debut novel, longtime observer of culture and politics Fredrik deBoer depicts mental illness in all its grim and ugly reality, free of our culture's endless romanticization of insanity.
The Dreamer's Guillotine: A novel in which the specter of isolation haunts memory, and the homeland becomes more of a place of sorrow than a haven for life.
