{"title":"Fiction","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"annie-john-jamaica-kincaid","title":"Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"desc_summary0374525102-content\" class=\"expandContent\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnnie John\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age story in the tradition of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eKincaid's novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood. Annie's voice--urgent, demanding to be heard--is one that will not soon be forgotten by readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence, who is the very center of the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's benign shadow. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, \"It was in such a paradise that I lived.\" When she turns twelve, however, Annie's life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. She begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world; at school she instinctively rebels against authority; and most frighteningly, her mother, seeing Annie as a \"young lady,\" ceases to be the source of unconditional adoration and takes on the new and unfamiliar guise of adversary. At the end of her school years, Annie decides to leave Antigua and her family, but not without a measure of sorrow, especially for the mother she once knew and never ceases to mourn. \"For I could not be sure,\" she reflects, \"whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJamaica Kincaid's\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e books include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt the Bottom of the River, Annie John, A Small Place, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Brother,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and, most recently, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMr. Potter.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e She lives in Vermont.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"expandHeader accFont\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":45645148946732,"sku":"","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/4623\/7740\/files\/AnnieJohnpbk.jpg?v=1689101044"},{"product_id":"at-last-edward-st-aubyn","title":"At Last, Edward St. Aubyn","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"desc_summary1250023904-content\" class=\"expandContent\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eEDITORS' CHOICE\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNotable Book of 2012\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Fiction Books 2011\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2012\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2012\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHere, from the writer described by\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eas \"our purest living prose stylist\" and whom Alan Hollinghurst has called \"the most brilliant English novelist of his generation,\" is a work of glittering social comedy, profound emotional truth, and acute verbal wit.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt Last\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis also the stunning culmination of one of the great fiction enterprises of the past two decades in the life of the English novel.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs readers of Edward St. Aubyn's extraordinary earlier works—\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNever Mind, Bad News, Some Hope,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand the Man Booker Prize finalist\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMother's Milk—\u003c\/i\u003eare well aware, for Patrick Melrose, \"family\" has always been a double-edged sword.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt Last\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebegins as friends, relatives, and foes trickle in to pay final respects to his mother, Eleanor. 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Following three friends and their circle through a year of transformation, and moving between London, Oxford, Cap d’Antibes, Big Sur, and a rewilded corner of Sussex, it is about the headlong pursuit of knowledge—for the purposes of pleasure, revelation, money, sanity, or survival—and the consequences of fleeing what we already know about others and ourselves.\u003cu data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cu data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen Olivia meets a new lover, Francis, just as she is welcoming her dearest friend Lucy back from New York, her dedicated academic life expands precipitously. Her connection to Francis, a committed naturalist living off-grid, is immediate and startling. Eager to involve Lucy in her joy, Olivia introduces the two—but Lucy has news of her own that binds the trio unusually close. 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Ali Smith has completed what must be considered both one of modern fiction's most elusive and most important undertakings . . . [Smith is] a great writer, quite possibly bound for a Nobel Prize; twenty years ago it seemed certain that Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, and Ian McEwan had lapped the field, but assess again today and it's instead Hilary Mantel and Smith who seem the most consequential British novelists of their generation . . . As the characters of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e entwine, like branches over a road, I had the feeling that no novelist has come closer to describing the particular sad informed madness of our times.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Charles Finch, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Though each book [in the Seasonal Quartet] raises the bar of social and political isolation ever higher, the goal of the novels is to connect these isolates one by one, through ingenious means both known and unknown to them. In doing so, Smith manages to restore both a sense of community and something even rarer in the wired world: narrative . . . A revelation of endurance and a balm even in the worst of times.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A deeply resonant finale to a work that should come to be recognized as a classic . . . A novel that is wonderfully entertaining—for its humor, allusions, deft use of time and memory, sharply realized characters, and delightfully relevant digressions—and a reminder, brought home by the pandemic, that everything and everyone truly is connected and the sufferance of suffering hurts us all.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Ali Smith concludes her seasonal quartet with the triumphant \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the long-awaited final installment in a groundbreaking postmodern series . . .  Now is the time to read straight through all four installments, which hang together in one grand, epic aria. 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How fitting that this novel should narrate for you how you feel about reading it at the very moment when you feel it, text pressing so closely against life it’s as if we are being challenged to spot the difference . . . [B]oth wildly innovative and reassuringly familiar at the same time . . . transcendent . . . Smith’s project has felt all along as if it wants to nudge us towards hope, towards the idea that if we want to reverse the irreversible flow of history, we have to look to what the novel can do.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sara Collins,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“[T]he first great coronavirus novel . . . grounded in current events, set to the backdrop of Australia’s bushfires, global warming, inklings of Covid hysteria and even George Floyd’s death. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e neatly ties the events of Smith’s previous novels together and offers a hopeful outlook for the future.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Evening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The final flourish of a mazy and beautiful quartet . . . 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What she is doing is coming as close as anyone ever has to writing the very nature of being itself... “Weather” transforms the novel of consciousness into a record of climate grief.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Parul Sehgal, The\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eprofile\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Time flies by in this wry story of a family—librarian Lizzie, her classics buff husband, their son, and her brother, a recovering addict. 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[A] lapidary masterwork... Remarkable and resonant... The right novel for the end of the world.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e--The\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Another perfectly wonderful trip inside the mind of Jenny Offill... [Her] fiction is such a pleasure to read... the funniness of many of her sentences indicates how precisely she calibrates them.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Slate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Ptent... Offill is a master of the glancing blow.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--NPR.org\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Glorious, dizzying, disconcerting and often laugh-out-loud hysterical”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--USA Today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Always wry and wise. Offill offers an acerbic observer with a wide-ranging mind in this marvelous novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Clever and seductive . . . the \"weather\" of our days both real and metaphorical, is perfectly captured in Offill's brief, elegant paragraphs, filled with insight and humor. Offill is good company for the end of the world.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Revelatory . . . Offill, who will delight fans of Lydia Davis and Joy Williams, performs breathtaking emotional and social distillation in this pithy and stealthily resonant tale of a woman trying to keep others, and herself, from \"tipping into the abyss.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Ocean Vuong\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Jenny Offill writes beautiful sentences; she is also a deft curator of silences. It’s this counterpoint of eloquence and felt absence that enables her to register the emotional and political weather of our present.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Ben Lerner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"No one writes about the intersection of love and existential despair like Jenny Offill.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Jia Tolentino\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Jenny Offill conjures entire worlds with her steady, near-pointillist technique. One feels a whole heaving, breathing universe behind her every line. Dread, the sensation of sinking, lostness, and being cast away from any sense of safety infiltrates every interaction and private moment in this book, like ashes from the burning world she describes.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Sheila Heti\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Novelists don’t need to dream the end of the world anymore—they need to wake up to it. Jenny Offill is one of today’s few essential voices, because she writes about essential things, in sentences so clipped and glittering it’s as if they are all cut from one diamond.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Jonathan Dee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeather\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a beautiful book, both subtle and powerful. In writing, that’s a superhuman feat. And now is exactly when we need the superhumans. Make haste. Read it.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Lydia Millet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"There is no doubt that Jenny Offill is the writer for this particular historical moment. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeather\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a tour de force of her considerable and startling gifts: the compressed and gorgeous sentences, the astounding comic timing, the profound and wise surprises. The miracle of this novel is how it looks at our contradictions and conditions with such bracing honesty and yet gives us a tender hopefulness toward these fraught humans. Offill makes us feel implicated but also loved.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Dana Spiotta\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45663170527532,"sku":"","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/4623\/7740\/files\/weather.jpg?v=1689210061"},{"product_id":"the-nursery-a-novel-by-szilvia-molnar","title":"The Nursery: A Novel by Szilvia Molnar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA \"brilliant...essential and surprisingly thrilling book about motherhood\" (\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Times)\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand the early postpartum days, following a woman struggling with maternal fear and its looming madness and showing how difficult and fragile those days can be—and how vital love is to pull anyone out from the dark\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“A radical novel...I’m obsessed with this book.” —Jessamine Chan,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe School for Good Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere is the before and the after. Withering in the maternal prison of her apartment, a new mother finds herself spiraling into a state of complete disaffection. As a translator, she is usually happy to spend her days as the invisible interpreter. But now home alone with her newborn, she is ill at ease with this state of perpetual giving, carrying, feeding. The instinct to keep her baby safe conflicts with the intrusive thoughts of causing the baby harm, and she struggles to reclaim her identity just as it seems to dissolve from underneath her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFeeling isolated from her supportive but ineffectual husband, she strikes up a tentative friendship with her ailing upstairs neighbour, Peter, who hushes the baby with his oxygen tank in tow. But they are both running out of time; something is soon to crack. 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Molnar’s book, with its nameless protagonist and oppressive non-eventfulness and cool prose, suggests the work of a number of contemporaries — Ottessa Moshfegh, Sheila Heti — but in the end it’s Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892 short story, 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' that’s the most apt shelfmate. We are watching a consciousness unravel.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Molnar has written a daring and much-needed novel that has some of the hothouse, unflinching quality of Sylvia Plath’s late poetry.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A powerful brew of a novel, emitting unpleasant sights, smells, and emotions that are rarely captured in print; it is frequently disquieting in its brutal, insistent candor.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLitHub\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Molnar's debut, about the first few sleep-decimated weeks in the life of a new mother...brings this particularly mind-eviscerating state of affairs into startlingly sharp relief in this uncompromising novel. 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I’m obsessed with this book.”  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jessamine Chan, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe School for Good Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eAn essential, singular contribution to the literature of mothering as a human, embodied, fundamentally existential experience.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Merritt Tierce, author of \u003ci\u003eLove me Back\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Nursery\u003c\/i\u003e dares to put a woman's body at the center of the story, a book as frightening as it is profound, as gory as it's beautiful, a reeling vision of postpartum experience unlike any.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Louisa Hall, author of \u003ci\u003eSpeak\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrinity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With unsparing, hypnotic, and fearless prose, Szilvia Molnar captures the texture, rhythms, and agonies of the post-partum body and mind. \u003ci\u003eThe Nursery\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of devastating elegance.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Patrick Cottrell, author of \u003ci\u003eSorry to Disrupt the Peace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A concise, powerful novel on bringing art and life into the world, by a beautiful prose stylist. Molnar's precision and phenomenal ear for language gives us new words for the oldest experience.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Lydia Kiesling, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Golden State\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Szilvia Molnar's portrait of the postpartum world is ruthlessly true and exacting. 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Warrell gives a supporting cast of women their own solos, through close-third-person chapters that detail their entanglements with the elusive Circus . . . Elegant, unexpected and wrenching as the “fierce” sounds that emerge from Circus’s trumpet . . . Unforgettable.” \u003cb\u003e—Lauren Christensen,\u003ci\u003e New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“[An] emerging literary superstar . . . Warrell writes a mean bad boy! This sensual and sensuous debut is a kaleidoscopic character study, a polyphonic riff on the modern-day Casanova from the perspectives of the myriad women in his wake.  Both visceral and finely observed, the novel captures social nuance and emotional wreckage with precision and compassion.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, “30 of the Best Fall Fiction Books of 2022 to Cuddle Up With”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Soulful and gripping . . . In her debut novel, Warrell assembles a lush orchestra of female voices to sing a story about passion and risk, fathers and daughters and the missed opportunities of unrequited love.\"  \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Circus Palmer, a 40-year-old jazz trumpet player, has spent a lifetime fleeing from romantic entanglements. Left in his wake are all the former wives, single mothers and other women he has avoided, including his teenage daughter, Koko. Warrell’s engaging debut novel spotlights their stories, weaving together the lives of indelibly created characters as they struggle to forge and maintain intimate connections.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, “\u003c\/i\u003e10 Noteworthy Books for September”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] moody and musical debut . . . No man is an island, not even a loner who has dodged commitment for all of his 40 years. And when a man like that goes off the rails the impact on others can be profound . . . Warrell excels at describing these points of contact—more often bruising impact than connection—conveying the varying degrees of longing, loneliness, and even aversion that can bring two people together . . . Sprawling and ambitious.” —\u003cb\u003eClea Simon, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“Moody, sexy, and (sometimes painfully) real.” \u003cb\u003e—People, “Best Fall Books 2022”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jazz sets the tone in this tender debut from Laura Warrell . . . Through smoky bars and clubs, hotel rooms, and bedrooms in New York, Boston, and Miami, Warrell spins a big-hearted multicultural world that never ignores race but still allows each character to live their lives as they see fit.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eApartment Therapy\u003c\/i\u003e, “If You’re Going to Read One Book in September, Make It This One”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A highly lyrical blockbuster debut . . . An enticing exploration of jazz music and the inner lives of women.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHollywood Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e, “What to Read Right Now: Timely Books With Hollywood Appeal”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A buzzed-about debut that takes readers behind the scenes of jazz clubs and into the private lives of touring musicians.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, “The 20 Books We’re Most Excited to Read This Fall”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A deeply engaging multifocal debut novel . . . [\u003ci\u003eSweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm\u003c\/i\u003e] is built like a hastily assembled jazz ensemble, a group of players taking turns on a rough theme, gathering their solos into a rich, indelible composition, so much stronger than the sum of its parts.” \u003cb\u003e—Literary Hub, “22 Novels You Need to Read This Fall”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“‘Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm,’ proclaimed Jelly Roll Morton, and Warrell plays her exceptional first novel with plenty of rhythm and tenderness, delivered in brisk, mordantly gorgeous language that has its own natural flow. Each woman has her own life, her own story . . . and as in any good jazz piece these stories play off one another seamlessly. A highly recommended story of love and life that makes beautiful music.”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An impressive debut novel weaves storylines of lost love, coming-of-age, and midlife crisis . . . Warrell displays delicately wrought characterization and a formidable command of physical and emotional detail. Her more intimate set pieces deliver sensual, erotic vibrations . . . she knows how to write about the way it feels to deliver jazz—and receive it. A captivating modern romance evoking love, loss, recovery, and redemption.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Warrell unfurls in her engaging debut the story of a peripatetic trumpet player. . . [She] evocatively describes the women who inspire Circus’s music and his lust . . . and finds the sadness deep in his heart. Warrell hits all the right notes.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Warrell tells this powerful, polyphonic tale mainly through the voices of those people Circus loves and leaves . . . All of these narrators appear and reappear as recurring motifs in the fugue-like tapestry of Circus' life, each playing a variation on the theme of this deeply flawed but charismatic man's hold on them, but also displaying their determination to establish individual lives . . . [A] remarkably assured, unforgettable debut.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Told in a rich array of voices, this gorgeously written debut explores the myriad syncopations of love and desire. Laura Warrell writes with an enormous understanding of human nature, a boundless sympathy for life’s complications, and a keen eye for life’s unexpected joys.” \u003cb\u003e—Celeste Ng, author of \u003ci\u003eLittle Fires Everywhere\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Beautifully and cleverly written, Laura Warrell’s \u003ci\u003eSweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunner. The novel’s tender, sensual, enchanting prose entices you into a world of deep longing and so much heartache. Still, I didn’t want to leave it. A truly mesmerizing debut!” \u003cb\u003e—Deesha Philyaw, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Lives of Church Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“The most memorable novels of my life are boiling over with insatiably written secondary characters that crave their own books. The same can be said about our most jamming jazz quartets. This peculiar cacophony is exactly what we see in at least five characters in \u003ci\u003eSweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm\u003c\/i\u003e. Koko, for example, is a once in lifetime, once in a galaxy character. Laura Warrell has crafted a world within the world with the achy mystery, wonder and subtexual bounce of the greatest jazz. \u003ci\u003eSweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm\u003c\/i\u003e is a soulful, fleshy and absolutely stunning debut. Warrell will re-teach us how to wail, pause and reckon. I am thankful.”  \u003cb\u003e—Kiese Laymon, author of \u003ci\u003eHeavy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“In an exceptional debut, Warrell turns love, or at least the love life of musician Circus Palmer into the proverbial jazz club: dark and sexy, freeing and frightening, ecstatic and lonely. This story is an example of how love, in all of its polyrhythms, can sometimes sound like song, and other times like noise. And this book is an example of how a great story can become a bass drum, kicking and thumping in your belly far after it’s over. A modern masterpiece.” \u003cb\u003e—Jason Reynolds, author of \u003ci\u003eLook Both Ways\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm\u003c\/i\u003e is a sultry and subversive debut. Laura Warrell’s prose sparkles, but it’s what she’s got to say about sex and love and being a woman that will take your breath away. This book is a love song, and Warrell knows how to hold all the right notes.”  \u003cb\u003e—Rachel Beanland, author of \u003ci\u003eFlorence Adler Swims Forever\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“Lyrical, sweeping, and life affirming, \u003ci\u003eSweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm\u003c\/i\u003e is an astonishing debut that wraps you in the passionate pulse of its characters and their world, and doesn't let go until its pitch perfect final note.”  \u003cb\u003e—Liska Jacobs, author of \u003ci\u003eCatalina\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Pink Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm\u003c\/i\u003e kept me turning the pages to see what shenanigans the titular jazz musician pulled next, while also waiting to cheer the moment when the women in his life finally blocked his number. Laura Warrell has cooked up one of the most compelling, entertaining, and heartfelt reads in recent memory.” \u003cb\u003e—Chris Terry, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Card\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm\u003c\/i\u003e, we meet trumpet player Circus Palmer, as problematic as he is enigmatic, as irresistible as your favorite song, and the women whom he seeks out, and walks away from, are just as compelling. Laura Warrell writes with such assurance and grace—her sentences sing—and she has created a world I didn’t want to leave: it’s sexy and profound, painful and joyful. A remarkable, unforgettable debut.” \u003cb\u003e—Edan Lepucki, author of \u003ci\u003eCalifornia\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWoman No. 17\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A book about desire and about love, about where these emotions meet and part and sometimes interlace in inescapable ways. 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She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and children.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":45876326170924,"sku":"","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/4623\/7740\/files\/standarddeviation.jpg?v=1689992168"},{"product_id":"games-and-rituals-stories-by-katherine-heiny","title":"Games and Rituals: Stories by Katherine Heiny","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe beloved author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEarly Morning Riser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebrings us glittering stories of love—friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts—in all its forms, both ridiculous and sublime.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Parts of my heart are still scattered throughout these perfectly rendered tales.” —Lisa Jewell, #1\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ebest-selling author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThen She Was Gone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny’s characters range from mischievous to tender: In “Bridesmaid, Revisited,” Marlee, suffering from a laundry and life crisis, wears a massive bridesmaid’s dress to work. In “Twist and Shout,” Erica’s elderly father mistakes his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eats it. In “Turn Back, Turn Back,” a bedtime story coupled with a receipt for a Starbucks babyccino reveal a struggling actor’s deception. And in “561,” Charlene pays the true price of infidelity and is forced to help her husband’s ex-wife move out of the family home. (“It’s like you’re North Korea and South Korea . . . But would North Korea help South Korea \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e?”) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKatherine Heiny, one of our most celebrated writers, our bard of waking up in the wrong bed, wearing the wrong shoes, running late for the wrong job, but loved by the right people, has delivered a collection of glorious humour and immense kindness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKATHERINE HEINY is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEarly Morning Riser, Standard Deviation,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSingle, Carefree, Mellow,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and her short fiction has appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Atlantic,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and many other magazines. She has lived in London, The Hague, and Boyne City, Michigan, and now lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband and children.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e“Katherine Heiny is back with \u003ci\u003eGames and Rituals,\u003c\/i\u003e a delightful bundle of offbeat dramedy fiction. Heiny grabs readers from the jump… “Chicken-Flavored” sets a precedent that carries on throughout the collection, making the ordinary extraordinary while saying just the right things to elicit a surprised but delighted snort.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e–\u003ci\u003eAssociated Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“From the author of \u003ci\u003eStandard Deviation\u003c\/i\u003e comes this charming collection of stories of everything from airport bar friendships to ex-husbands to hearing aids.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e–\u003ci\u003eThe New York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Much of the world spent a year or two or three enclosed with the people we were supposed to be most intimate with. It seems only natural then that the interest now would be to put those relationships under scrutiny. Heiny’s new story collection tests the limits of these relationships over and over again, challenging the institutions of family and marriage… Heiny captures the domestic tension perfectly.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e–\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“The opportunity to read a new short story by Katherine Heiny always fills me with delight. I know I’m going to laugh; I know I’m going to be slightly shocked by a deliciously inappropriate joke or line of dialogue; I know I’m going to laugh some more; and I know I’ll probably have my heart broken just a little bit.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e–Jennifer Close, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Unlikely bedfellows, cherished companions, and makeshift collectives are some of Heiny’s literary hallmarks, and for lovers of short fiction, it is pleasant to think of collections as comprising their own kinds of communities, even families, each story a cousin to the next, floating around in a gene pool of sorts.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e–\u003ci\u003eWashington City Paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Charmingly amusing stories… What’s so funny? Most of Games takes place in everyday landscapes, among middle and upper-middle class Anglo types – not always a fertile scene to explore. (Well recently, especially? This is not the wokest of crowds!) However, Heiny has a knack for making lemonade out of lemons; these tales tend to run away with themselves, and you won’t find yourself poorer for it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e–The Arts Fuse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I already loved Katherine Heiny, but this exquisite collection of short stories puts her firmly in my top ten favourite writers of all time. Her ability to throw a character into three fully-alive dimensions within half a paragraph is astounding and possibly unparalleled. I wanted every story to be continued into a long-form novel and parts of my heart are still scattered throughout these perfectly rendered tales of quirks and foibles, damage and redemption and the things people do just to make it through another day. This book, and the people within its pages, will stay with me forever.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Lisa Jewell, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebest-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThen She Was Gone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGames and Rituals,\u003c\/i\u003e full of relatably weird characters discovering their self-deceptions, proves her to be the most pleasurable architect of the short story form writing today… Her radar for people’s eccentricities is exquisite.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jessie Thompson, \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eHeiny has an amazing ability to give you a picture of someone’s life in a snatch of dialogue and an anecdote…hilarious…These are the perfect phrases – funny and recognisable and a tiny bit melancholy– that Heiny can apparently turn out by the dozen…I could quote 50 lines that I noted, and still not get to the end of the joys of Heiny’s writing style – a voice “like glass beads rolling on a snare drum” and the perfect conversational couple: “he can’t hear and she doesn’t listen”. It’s possible Heiny thinks of herself as primarily a short story writer; her true fans know better and need another novel. But in the meantime, this very funny collection, with its razor-sharp observations on life, will do to keep readers happy.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Moira Redmond, iNEWS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Witty, astute and delightfully accessible.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Heiny has the comic writer’s knack of taking a character’s idiosyncrasies (…) and making them joyfully relatable. (And she can say more in a pithy parenthesis than many writers manage in a page.) 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If you spot a new Heiny story anywhere, do email me.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eAndrew Billen,\u003ci\u003e The Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For any reader yet to encounter Katherine Heiny, this sparky new story collection provides a joyous introduction....The deadpan delivery, the bittersweet wisdom, the sublime farce – it’s all here.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eHephizbah Anderson, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone who has read any of Heiny’s previous work will know she has a knack for capturing all the vicissitudes of love in a way that few other writers can. \u003ci\u003eGames and Rituals\u003c\/i\u003e is no different, bringing the minutiae of our everyday interactions to life with humour and clarity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eAnna Bonet, iNEWS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Short stories sometimes leave you wanting more but each one in this collection is as satisfying as any novel… All human life is here and Heiny exposes its complexity with wit and poignancy.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Joanne Finney, \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I’m a devoted fan of Katherine Heiny. 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But it is so quietly beautiful and moving, so precisely constructed, that you want to read it in one sitting and enjoy being in it, altered somehow, as if you have been allowed to wear an exquisitely tailored garment that you don’t want to take off.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“One of the great forgotten novels of the past century. I have bought at least 50 copies of it in the past few years, using it as a gift for friends...The book is so beautifully paced and cadenced that it deserves the status of classic.”—Colum McCann, Top 10 Novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eStoner\u003c\/i\u003e is undeniably a great book, but I can also understand why it isn’t a sentimental favorite in its native land. You could almost describe it as an anti-Gatsby...Part of Stoner’s greatness is that it sees life whole and as it is, without delusion yet without despair...The novel embodies the very virtues it exalts, the same virtues that probably relegate it, like its titular hero, to its perpetual place in the shade. But the book, like professor William Stoner, isn’t out to win popularity contests. It endures, illumined from within.”—Tim Kreider, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But it’s one of the most fascinating things that you’ve ever come across.”—Tom Hanks, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eStoner\u003c\/i\u003e is written in the most plainspoken of styles...Its hero is an obscure academic who endures a series of personal and professional agonies. Yet the novel is utterly riveting, and for one simple reason: because the author, John Williams, treats his characters with such tender and ruthless honesty that we cannot help but love them.”—Steve Almond, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“The best book I read in 2007 was \u003ci\u003eStoner\u003c\/i\u003e by John Williams. It’s perhaps the best book I’ve read in years.”—Stephen Elliott, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“John Williams’s \u003ci\u003eStoner\u003c\/i\u003e is something rarer than a great novel—it is a perfect novel, so well told and beautifully written, so deeply moving, that it takes your breath away.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Williams didn’t write much compared with some novelists, but everything he did was exceedingly fine...it’s a shame that he’s not more often read today...But it’s great that at least two of his novels [\u003ci\u003eStoner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eButcher’s Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e] have found their way back into print.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A masterly portrait of a truly virtuous and dedicated man.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Why isn’t this book famous...Very few novels in English, or literary productions of any kind, have come anywhere near its level for human wisdom or as a work of art.”—C. 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The chapters devoted to this romance are both terribly sexy and profoundly wise.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I’m not a big rereader, but I just reread\u003ci\u003e Stoner\u003c\/i\u003e by John Williams, and marveled once again at its remarkable combination of omniscience and intimacy.” — Jess Walter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":45891639968044,"sku":"","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/4623\/7740\/files\/stoner.jpg?v=1690131147"},{"product_id":"seating-arrangements-a-novel-by-maggie-shipstead","title":"Seating Arrangements: A Novel by Maggie Shipstead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER •\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWinner of the\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBook Prize\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e•\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe irresistible story of a summer New England wedding weekend gone awry—a deliciously biting satirical glimpse into the lives of the well-bred and ill-behaved, from the\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGreat Circle.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the island of Waskeke to celebrate the marriage of daughter Daphne—seven months pregnant—to the impeccably appropriate Greyson Duff. 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When old resentments, a beached whale and an escaped lobster are added to the mix, the wedding that should have gone off with military precision threatens to become a spectacle of misbehavior.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMAGGIE SHIPSTEAD is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. 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Waltzlike.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The novel I've been recommending this summer to anyone, female or male, who's looking for the trifecta—a good story that's beautifully written and both hilarious and humane.\" —Maureen Corrigan, NPR\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This gorgeous, wise, funny, sprawling novel about family, fidelity, and social class, is the best book I’ve read in ages.” —J. Courtney Sullivan, author of \u003ci\u003eMaine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Shipstead’s weave of wit and observation continually delights. 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It is gratifying on every scale.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Precise, skilled, quick-witted, and warm-hearted.”  —\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dead-on delightful. . . . A champagne-fueled, saltwater-scented comedy of upper-crust New England manners and mores.” —\u003ci\u003eNational Geographic Traveler\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wise, sophisticated and funny novel about family, fidelity, class and crisis.”—\u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A pitch-perfect debut from a master storyteller, \u003ci\u003eSeating Arrangements\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich and deep work: a smart, consuming novel that manages also to be delightfully funny. 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She lives in Pittsburgh.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"One of the truly original writers of 20th-century Los Angeles.\" —Kevin Dettmar, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The writing—its innocence, its sophistication, its candor, its wit, its profligacy and pluck, its willingness to fly in the face of received wisdom, its sheer headlong, impish glee—made me positively dizzy with pleasure.\"—Lili Anolik, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Los Angeles-born glamour girl, bohemian, artist, muse, sensualist, wit and pioneering foodie Eve Babitz . . . reads like Nora Ephron by way of Joan Didion, albeit with more lust and drugs and tequila . . . Reading Babitz is like being out on the warm open road at sundown, with what she called, in another book, '4\/60 air conditioning'—that is, going 60 miles per hour with all four windows down. You can feel the wind in your hair.” —Dwight Garner, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEve’s Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has become a classic of LA life. The names in the dedication, Jim Morrison, David Geffen, Andy Warhol, Stephen Stills, and more, indicate the era and depth of this important book.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Steve Martin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Sharp and funny throughout, Babitz offers an almost cinematic portrait of Los Angeles: gritty, glamorous, toxic and intoxicating.” —Carmela Ciuraru, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's so good that I don't want to finish it.” —Laia Garcia, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLennyLetter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEve’s Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is less a straightforward story or tell-all than a sure-footed collection of elliptical yet incisive vignettes and essays about love, longing, beauty, sex, friendship, art, artifice, and above all, Los Angeles. . . . Reading West (and Fante and Chandler and Cain and the like) made me want to go to Los Angeles. Babitz makes me feel like I’m there.” —Deborah Shapiro, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Second Pass\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Eve Babitz is to prose what Chet Baker, with his light, airy style, lyrical but also rhythmic, detached but also sensuous, is to jazz.” —Lili Anolik, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A beautiful stylist whose flourishes were almost always carefully doled out, calibrated, and sure… The joy of Babitz’s writing is in her ability to suggest that an experience is very nearly out of language while still articulating its force within it.” —Naomi Fry, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Babitz skips around time with ease and writes with the airy, knowing offhandedness of Renata Adler’s Jen Fain, except she eschews Manhattan sophistication in favor of a Hollywood unpretentiousness.”—Alison Herman, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlavorwire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Her chronicle is laced with acerbic wit and sparkling charm . . . Babitz is a keen observer of her social milieu and the effects of beauty on power, and comes across as both a savvy cosmopolite and an ingénue in the same breath . . . Babitz takes the reader on travels to New York and Rome, but California provides her main canvas: a place where movie stars are discovered, earthquakes reverberate, and beautiful women overdose on drugs.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“[A] charming tour guide who takes a wasteland and gives us back a wonderland.” —Steffie Nelson, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Her voice on the page is no less mesmerizing than her presence in a room . . . The singular spectrum of her adventures, her friends, and her tastes reveal themselves in her unconventional and delightful dedication page(s).” —Nicole Jones, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Eve Babitz, whose autobiographical vignettes of LA had an easygoing Mediterranean warmth and acceptance (she didn't billboard over the dark side of LA and Hollywood, she just didn't elevate it into a noir nihilism) that was the antithesis of Joan Didion's desert vision of bleached bones beneath numbed nerves. The pleasure principle still prevailed in Eve's writing, whatever the setbacks and heartbreaks.\" —James Wolcott, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Her voice manages to be both serious and happy, with a run-on syntax that feels like a friend on her second glass of wine. Relentlessly unsentimental, she sees people for who they are, regardless of who she wants them to be . . . In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEve's Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, she writes with the aching immediacy of adolescence and the wide-angle perspective of a woman much older—and she's only in her 20s.\" —Holly Brubach, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"What truly sets Babitz apart from L.A. writers like Didion or Nathanael West . . . is that no matter what cruel realities she might face, a part of her still buys the Hollywood fantasy, feels its magnetic pull as much as that Midwestern hopeful who heads to the coast in pursuit of 'movie dreams.'\" —Steffie Nelson, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Eve Babitz is a little like Madame de Sevigne, that inveterate letter-writer of Louis XIV's time, transposed to the Chateau Marmont in the late 20th-Century—lunching, chatting, dressing, loving and crying in Hollywood, that latter-day Versailles.\" —Mollie Gregory, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"As the cynosure of the counterculture, Eve Babitz knew everybody worth knowing; slept with everybody worth sleeping with and better still, made herself felt in every encounter.\" —Daniel Bernardi, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePopMatters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Her romp through ’70s L.A. winkingly fulfills the promises of pleasure and delight so often scorched to nil by writers like Joan Didion.” —Ian Epstein\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Vulture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEve’s Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—a memoir of sorts that detailed her life growing up in California, attending Hollywood High, and hanging out with a bevy of rock and art stars—announced Babitz as a writer with a brand of glamour that was sophisticated yet gritty, intellectual with a lust for life and also for, well, sex. 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Her desire for a comfortable life means that she will not marry for love without money, but her resistance to the rules of the social elite endangers her many marriage proposals and leads her into a dramatic downward spiral into debt and dishonor. 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