Praise for Sea Monsters Winner of the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction The Atlantic, Not Your Average Beach Read Bustle, 1 of 24 Fiction Books Coming Out This Month that You Definitely Need to Read "Following a grand narrative tradition of privileged yet jaded youth, this novel’s teen–age protagonist, Luisa, flees her middle–class life in Mexico City in search of adventure . . . Aridjis, like Luisa, has a knack for clever observations, and her supple writing ultimately keeps the story going."— The New Yorker "A mesmerizing novel . . . Aridjis beautifully renders the perspective of a bored, intelligent, privileged teenage girl—a decadent, solipsistic daydream." — Emily Rhodes, Financial Times "[A] dreamy, fantastical novel packed with lush description as Luisa recounts her first encounters with the darkly enrapturing Tomás; interchanged with scenes of her new life on the beach, where she becomes increasingly intertwined with others’ lives." — Jill Capeway, HuffPost "Based on an episode from Aridjis's teenage years in Mexico, the novel's brilliance lies in capturing so convincingly that state of adolescent restlessness . . . With its watery setting, its perhapses and probablys, the novel carries a suggestion that things aren't quite as they seem . . . Aridjis leaves us with the sense that Luisa's disillusionment, like everything else, is in flux."— Francesca Carington, The Daily Telegraph "A surreal, captivating tale about the power of a youthful imagination, the lure of teenage transgression, and its inevitable disappointments . . . Aridjis allows her narrative to swell and recede like the sea, along with Luisa’s capacious imagination . . . Aridjis excels at writing a life lived in the borderlands between reality and fantasy, conveying the imagination of a 17–year–old with whims and fancies that are intriguing rather than exasperating or laughable. Luisa’s goals remain elusive, and her gradual disenchantment is entirely relatable. Moreover, the novel’s precocious teenage narrative voice is replete with sentences of rare beauty and power. I may start reading it again at once." — Ellen Jones, Los Angeles Review of Books " Sea Monsters revels in a mode of perception that’s just a little bit off from true . . . Luisa delights in the improbable but actual . . . Sea Monsters is a treasure chest of Luisa’s deftly curated visions." — Angela Woodward, BOMB Magazine "A coming–of–age story set . . . in the Mexico in which Aridjis grew up, in which the language is precise, strange, evocative and wise. It’s language as it really ought to be . . . The novel poses far more questions than it answers, and it does so accurately and beautifully." — R. O. Kwon, The Guardian "[Aridjis] riffs like a poet, letting each image twist and grow into the next . . . The novel’s strength lies in its ability to turn to the next magic trick, the next detail, the next sight. Those sights are all the more impressive when conjured solely from language. By opting out of fiction’s conventional prioritization of plot or character development, Aridjis foregrounds her ability to develop images and metaphors. The result is seductive in its multiplicity. Mallarmé would be proud." — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic " Sea Monsters is a searingly hypnotic work, a dazzling tale of enchantment and disenchantment that unfolds in Mexico City and Oaxaca in the late 1980s." — Laura Esquivel, bestselling author of Like Water for Chocolate "What a seamless, cohesive, verging on sweetly claustrophobic voice this is." — Peter Rock, author of The Night Swimmers

In this autobiographical novel, Albania's most renowned novelist and poet Ismail Kadare explores his relationship with his mother in a delicately wrought tale of home, family, creative aspirations, and personal and political freedom. "Houses like ours seemed constructed with the specific purpose of preserving coldness and misunderstanding for as long as possible." In his father's great stone house with hidden rooms and even a dungeon, Ismail grows up with his mother at the center of his universe. Fragile as a paper doll, she finds herself at odds with her tight-lipped and wise mother-in-law who, as is the custom for women of a certain age, will never again step foot over the threshold to leave her home. Young Ismail finds it difficult to understand his mother's tears, though he can understand her boredom. She told him the reason herself in a phrase that terrified and obsessed the boy: "The house is eating me up!" As Ismail explores his world, his mother becomes fearful of her intellectual son-he uses words she does not understand, writes radical poetry, falls in love far too easily, and seems to renounce everything she believes in. He will, she fears, have to exchange her for some other superior mother when he becomes a famous writer. The Doll is a delicate and disarming autobiographical novel, an exploration of Kadare's creative aspirations and their tangled connections to his childhood home and his mother's tenuous place within it.

Loosely structured on the greatest identity crisis ever, "The French Revolution" is the hilarious, tragic, and deeply imaginative story of a San Francisco family forging its place in history. Esmerelda Van Twinkle, a failed pastry chef turned outsized copy shop manager, stumbles into motherhood after a semi-intentional liaison with good-natured coupon distributor Jasper Winslow. Born on Bastille Day, their twin children Robespierre and Marat revolt against archaic rules imposed by their autocratic grandmother, surmount radically misguided parenting, navigate factional infighting, and combat wars in the Middle East to achieve great personal gain. But just as the family is on the cusp of achieving meteoric success in politics, business, music, and gastronomy, fissures from the past crack open spectacularly, derailing their bid for long-lived power while cementing a reputation for the ages. Matt Stewart blends vibrant prose, unforgettable characters, and a multi-layered plot based on the extremes of the historical French Revolution for a relentlessly entertaining debut novel. "Viva la revolution!"

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Now with a new introduction by Peter Orner, a beautiful reissue of Gina Berriault's stunning collected stories, which received the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award, the 1997 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the Rae Award for the Short Story.

It is the autumn of 1913, and Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest shoot of the season. An army of servants and gamekeepers has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual of the house and hunt. The gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowship and good-humored sporting rivalry. The fashionable ladies are exchanging the latest gossip. Everything about this splendid weekend would seem a perfect affirmation of the privileges and certainties of Edwardian country life. And yet, as Isabel Colegate so elegantly dramatizes, it is not. The social and moral code of this set is under siege from within and without. Competition beyond the bounds of sportsmanship, revulsion at the slaughter of animals, anger at the inequities of class - these and other forces are about to rise up and challenge the social peace, a peace that can hold only a brief while longer.

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This wry and visceral debut novel follows a young Turkish-American woman who, rather than grieving her father's untimely death, seeks treatment for a stubborn headache and grows obsessed with a centuries-old theory of medicine. Twenty-year-old Sibel thought she had concrete plans for the summer. She would care for her grandmother in Istanbul, visit her father's grave, and study for the MCAT. Instead, she finds herself watching Turkish soap operas and self-diagnosing her own possible chronic illness with the four humors theory of ancient medicine. Also on Sibel's mind: her blond American boyfriend who accompanies her to Turkey; her energetic but distraught younger sister; and her devoted grandmother, who, Sibel comes to learn, carries a harrowing secret. Delving into her family's history, the narrative weaves through periods of political unrest in Turkey, from military coups to the Gezi Park protests. Told with pathos and humor, Sibel's search for strange and unusual cures is disrupted as she begins to see how she might heal herself through the care of others, including her own family and its long-fractured relationships.

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Author William Upski Wimsatt covers a truly remarkable array of topics and perspectives, all while recounting his own evolution from idealistic urban wanderer to community organizer, from graffiti writer to renowned essayist. Wimsatt delivers stories, strategies, suggestions, straight talk, and conversations with maverick activists. He advocates youth taking charge of their own education, whether it's in or out of school, and promotes the power of young people engaging in philanthropy. A truly original treatise from the paradigm-flipping theorist of youth activism, "No More Prisons" goes beyond pinpointing problems to hone in on solutions, and declares that today's youth is poised to surpass the activist efforts of the 1960s generation.

It is the autumn of 1913, and Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest shoot of the season. An army of servants and gamekeepers has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual of the house and hunt. The gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowship and good-humored sporting rivalry. The fashionable ladies are exchanging the latest gossip. Everything about this splendid weekend would seem a perfect affirmation of the privileges and certainties of Edwardian country life. And yet, as Isabel Colegate so elegantly dramatizes, it is not. The social and moral code of this set is under siege from within and without. Competition beyond the bounds of sportsmanship, revulsion at the slaughter of animals, anger at the inequities of class - these and other forces are about to rise up and challenge the social peace, a peace that can hold only a brief while longer.

In this follow-up to "White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son," Wise examines the way in which institutional racism continues to shape the contours of daily life in the United States, and how white Americans reap privileges from the system of racial inequality.