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Contents More Miracle than Bird. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Unsettled Ground. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey through Britain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease. . . . . . . . . . . 4 A Girl is a Body of Water. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Superdoom: Selected Poems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Contact and Distribution Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0
iii CO MI N G FICTION I N PA P ER B AC K The New York Times Book Review More Miracle Summer Reading Selection than Bird “Marvelous. Alice Miller is a beautiful writer. I absolutely love this book." a no v el by ALI CE MI LLER ——PAULA McLAIN O n the eve of World War I, twenty-one-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees—on her own for the first time—is introduced to the acclaimed poet W. B. Yeats at a soirée in London. Although Yeats is famously eccentric and many years her senior, Georgie is drawn to him, and when he extends a cryptic invita- tion to a secret society, her life is forever changed. A shadow falls over London as zeppelins stalk overhead and bombs bloom against the skyline. Amidst the chaos, Georgie finds purpose tending to injured soldiers in a makeshift hospital, befriending the wounded and heartbroken Lieutenant Pike, who might need more from her than she is able to give. At night, she escapes with Yeats into a darker world, becoming immersed in the Order, a clandestine so- ciety where ritual, magic, and the conjuring of spirits is practiced and pursued. As forces—both of this world and the next—pull Yeats and Georgie closer together and then apart, Georgie uncovers a secret US $16.95 · Paperback · CAN $22.95 · FICTION that threatens to undo it all. ISBN 978-1-951142-51-3 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 368 pages In bright, commanding prose, debut author ON SALE MAY 11, 2021 Alice Miller illuminates the fascinating and un- forgettable courtship of Georgie Hyde-Lees and N AT I ON A L M A RK E T I NG C A M PAI G N W. B. Yeats. A sweeping tale of faith and love, ∙ National media campaign, including “New in Paper- lost and found and fought for, More Miracle than back” roundups Bird ingeniously captures the moments—both ∙ Ongoing national author appearances large and small—on which the fates of whole lives and countries hinge. ∙ National print and digital advertising campaign, target- ing readers of historical fiction ALICE MILLER is a graduate ∙ Extensive book club promotions and advertising of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the International Institute of Modern Letters. She is on the faculty of the MFA program at Cedar Crest College. Born in New Zealand, she currently resides in Berlin. alicemillerauthor.com
FICTION iv From the author of Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, and Bitter Orange comes a brilliant novel about an unusual Unsettled Ground family held together by a string of lies, a small a n o v el b y C LA IR E F ULLE R town with too many questions, and a sudden death that threatens to undo them all. A t fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural iso- lation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protec- tion against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home. But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they’ve so carefully created begins to fall apart. The cottage they love, and the security it offered, is taken back by their landlord, exposing the twins to harsh truths and even harsher realities. Seeing a new future, Julius becomes torn between the loyalty he feels towards his sister and his desire for independence, while Jeanie struggles to find work and a home for them both. And just when it seems there might be a way forward, a series of startling secrets from their mother’s past come to the US $26.95 · Hardcover · CAN $35.95 · NONFICTION ISBN 978-1-951142-48-3 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 336 pages surface, forcing the twins to question who they are, ON SALE MAY 18, 2021 and everything they know of their family’s history. In this stunning novel, award-winning author Claire Fuller masterfully builds a tale of sacrifice N AT ION A L M A RKE T I NG C A M PA IG N and hope, of homelessness and hardship, of love and ∙ Select author appearances survival, in which two marginalized and remark- able people uncover long-held family secrets and, in ∙ Major prepublication campaign: Winter Institute featured author, trade advertising, and massive Goodreads give- their own way, repair, recover, and begin again. aways to industry big-mouths and social media influencers ∙ National media campaign, including TV, radio, and CLAIRE FULLER was born online interviews in Oxfordshire, England, in 1967. She has written ∙ National print campaign, including reviews, features, three novels: Our Endless and original essays Numbered Days, which won ∙ Positioning for Best of the Month selection, including the Desmond Elliott Prize; Indie Next and Library Reads Swimming Lessons; and ∙ Aggressive book club outreach and promotions Bitter Orange. She lives in Hampshire with her husband and two children. ∙ Comprehensive social media and bookstagrammer influencer campaign clairefuller.co.uk
1 NONFICTION “Roger Deakin is a latter-day Thoreau.” ——ROBERT MACFARLANE, author of Underland Waterlog A Swimmer’s Journey C onsidered a masterpiece of nature writing, and the book that launched the international through Britain wild swimming movement, Roger Deakin’s Waterlog is a fascinating and inspiring journey into the by R OGER DEAKI N aquatic world that surrounds us. int ro duct io n by BONNI E TSUI In an attempt to discover his island nation from a new perspective, Roger Deakin embarks from his home in Suffolk to swim Britain—the seas, riv- ers, lakes, ponds, pools, streams, lochs, moats, and quarries. Through the watery capillary network that braids itself throughout the country, Deakin immerses himself in the natural habitats of fish, amphibians, mammals, and birds. And as he navigates towns, pri- vate property, and sometimes dangerous waters and inclement weather, Deakin finds himself in precari- ous situations: he’s detained by bailiffs in Winchester, intercepted by the coast guard at the mouth of a river, and mistaken for a dead body on a beach. The result of this surprising journey is a deep dive into modern Britain: its people and culture, its laws and customs, its communities, and especially its wild places. With enchanting descriptions of natural land- scapes, a deep well of humanity, boundless humor, and unbridled joy, Deakin beckons us to wilder waters and inspires us to connect to the larger world in a most unexpected way. Thrilling, vivid, US $27.95 · Hardcover · CAN $36.95 · NONFICTION and lyrical, Waterlog is a fully immersive adventure— ISBN 978-1-951142-85-8 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 370 pages a remarkable personal quest, a bold assertion of the ON SALE MAY 25, 2021 native swimmer’s right to roam, and an unforget- table celebration of the magic of water. N AT IO N A L M A RK E T I NG C A M PAI G N ∙ National print campaign, including features and reviews. ∙ Prepublication activation campaign for consumers, ROGER STUART DEAKIN including targeted outreach to open swimming and was an English writer, nature sites documentary-maker, and cel- ebrated environmentalist. He ∙ National print and digital advertising campaign, includ- was a co-founder and trustee ing Facebook and Instagram, along with literary, sports, of Common Ground, the arts, and health sites culture, and environmental ∙ Comprehensive social media campaign, including organization. Waterlog, prepublication outreach to bookstagrammers the only book he published in his lifetime, became a UK ∙ Finished book mailing to industry big-mouths and bestseller, and founded the wild swimming movement. He influencers in the swimming community lived in Suffolk, England, and died there in 2006, at age sixty-three.
“A deft mix of family archeology, parasite NONFICTION 2 detective story, and American reckoning." ——DANIELLE OFRI The Kissing Bug G rowing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that A True Story of a Family, an her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases, Deadly Disease and even into her thirties, she only knew that a m em o ir b y DA ISY HE R N ÁN DE Z her aunt had died of a rare illness called Chagas. But as Hernández dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas—or the kissing bug disease—is more prevalent in the United States than the Zika virus. Today, more than three hundred thousand Americans have Chagas. After her aunt’s death, Hernández begins searching for answers about who our nation chooses to take care of and who we ignore. Crisscrossing the country, she interviews pa- tients, epidemiologists, and even veterinarians with the Department of Defense. She learns that outside of Latin America, the United States is the only country with the native insects—the “kissing bugs”—that carry the Chagas parasite. She spends a night in southwest Texas hunting the dreaded bug with university researchers. She also gets to know patients, like a mother whose premature baby was born infected with the parasite, his heart already damaged. And she meets one cardiologist battling the disease in Los US $27.95 · Hardcover · CAN $36.95 · NONFICTION Angeles County with local volunteers. ISBN 978-1-951142-52-0 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 336 pages A riveting and nuanced investigation into ra- ON SALE JUNE 1, 2021 cial politics and for-profit healthcare in the United States, The Kissing Bug reveals the intimate history of N AT ION A L M A RKE T I NG C A M PA IG N a marginalized disease and connects us to the lives at the center of it all. ∙ Comprehensive prepublication campaign, including bookseller events, trade advertising, and extensive DAISY HERNÁNDEZ is galley giveaways a former reporter for The New York Times. She edited ∙ Goodreads giveaways Colonize This! Young Women ∙ National media interviews of Color on Today’s Feminism ∙ National author tour and has written for National Geographic, NPR’s All Things ∙ Print and digital advertising campaign Considered, and The Atlantic. ∙ Library marketing She is the author of the memoir A Cup of Water Under My ∙ Extensive social media campaign Bed, and is a professor at Miami University in Ohio. daisyhernandez.com
CO MI N G I N PA P ER B AC K A Best Book of the Year at TIME, T he Washington Post, and O, The Oprah Magazine A Girl is a Body “Irresistible . . . with remarkable of Water wit, heart, and charm.” ——THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW a n ov e l by JEN N IFER NANSUBUGA MAKUMBI I n her thirteenth year, Kirabo confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small Ugandan village of Nattetta—her grandmother, her best friend, and her many aunts—but the absence of her mother follows her like a shadow. Complicating these feelings of abandonment, as Kirabo comes of age she feels the emergence of a mysterious second self, a headstrong and confusing force inside her at odds with her sweet and obedient nature. Seeking answers, Kirabo begins spending after- noons with Nsuuta, the local witch, trading stories and learning not only about this force inside her, but about the woman who birthed her, who she learns is alive but not ready to meet. Nsuuta also explains that Kirabo has a streak of the “first woman”—an independent, original state that has been all but lost to women. Kirabo’s journey to reconcile her rebellious origins, alongside her desire to reconnect with her mother and to honor her family’s expectations, is US $17.95 · Paperback · CAN $23.95 · FICTION rich in the folklore of Uganda and an arresting ex- ISBN 978-1-951142-55-1 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 560 pages ON SALE JUNE 15, 2021 ploration of what it means to be a modern girl in a world that seems determined to silence women. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s unforgettable N AT I ON A L M A RK E T I NG C A M PAI G N novel is a sweeping testament to the true and last- ing connections between history, tradition, family, ∙ National media campaign, including “New in paper- friends, and the promise of a different future. back” roundups ∙ Ongoing national author appearances JENNIFER NANSUBUGA ∙ Extensive book club promotion MAKUMBI is a recipient of ∙ National print and digital advertising campaign, target the Windham-Campbell Prize and her first novel, Kintu, ∙ ing readers of historical fiction won the Kwani? Manuscript ∙ Extensive book club promotions and advertising Project Prize in 2013 and was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize in 2014. Her story “Let’s Tell This Story Properly” was the winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Born in Mengo, Uganda, she lives in Manchester, UK, with her husband and son. jennifermakumbi.net
NONFICTION 4 "Courtney Cook’s astonishing collection is beyond categorization. A blend of vibrant visual imagery and lyrical prose, Cook The Way She Feels thoughtfully and refreshingly redefines My Life on the Borderline in the mental illness memoir.” Pictures and Pieces ——PIPER WEISS, AUTHOR OF Y OU ALL a mem o ir b y CO URTN E Y COO K GROW UP AND LEAVE ME W hat does it feel like to fall in love too hard and too fast, to hate yourself in equal and opposite measure? To live in such fear of rejection that you drive friends and lovers away? Welcome to my world. I’m Courtney, and I have borderline personality disorder (BPD), along with five million other people in the United States. Though I’ve shown every classic symp- tom of the disorder since childhood, I wasn’t properly diagnosed until nearly a decade later, because the prevailing theory is that most people simply “grow out of it.” Not me. In my illustrated memoir The Way She Feels, I want to share what it’s been like to live and love with this disorder. Not just the hospitalizations, treatments, and residential therapy, but the mo- ments I found comfort in cereal, the color pink, or mini corn dogs; the days I couldn’t style my hair because I thought the blow-dryer was going to hurt me; the peace I found when someone I US $18.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $24.95 · NONFICTION ISBN 978-1-951142-59-9 · 6 ½" x 8 ½" · 250 pages love held me. This is a book about vulnerability, ON SALE JUNE 29, 2021 honesty, and acceptance; how to live in your own skin; and how to speak openly—not only with doctors or co-patients; with friends, family, and N AT ION A L M A RKE T I NG C A M PA IG N partners; but also with ourselves. ∙ Select author appearances ∙ National media campaign, including TV, radio, and COURTNEY COOK is online interviews a writer, illustrator, teacher, ∙ National print campaign, including reviews, features, and lover of naps. Courtney and original essays received an undergraduate degree from the University of ∙ Goodreads giveaways Michigan and a MFA in creative ∙ Comprehensive social media campaign, including nonfiction from the University bookstagrammer influencers of California, Riverside. She grew up in Winnetka, Illinois, and now resides in Chicago with ∙ Promotional outreach and partnerships with health, her cat, Bertie. counseling, and educational organizations courtneycook.me
5 POETRY Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Other People’s Night——the book that launched the career of one of our most important young Comfort Keeps Me American poets——is back in print. Up at Night “Hilarious and hard-hitting . . . it po e ms by MORGAN PARKER ripples with energy, insight, and searing music.” ——TRACY K. SMITH T he debut collection from award-winning poet Morgan Parker (There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé; Magical Negro) demonstrates why she’s become one of the most beloved writ- ers working today. Her command of language is on full display. Parker bobs and weaves between humor and pathos, grief and anxiety, Gwendolyn Brooks and Jay-Z, the New York School and re- ality television. She collapses any foolish distinc- tions between the personal and the political, the “high” and the “low.” Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night not only introduced an essential new voice to the world, it contains everything readers have come to love about Morgan Parker’s work. US $16.95 · Paperback · CAN $22.95 · POETRY ISBN 978-1-951142-56-8 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 120 pages ON SALE JULY 13, 2021 MORGAN PARKER s a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the N AT I ON A L M A RK E T I NG C A M PAI G N poetry collections There Are More Beautiful Things ∙ Select author appearances Than Beyoncé and Magical ∙ National media campaign, including TV, radio, and Negro, which won the 2019 online interviews National Book Critics Circle ∙ National print campaign, including features and Award, and the young adult novel W ho Put This Song On? original essays Parker’s debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World. She is the recipient of a National Endowment ∙ Inclusion in Tin House Linebreakers promotion for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart ∙ Digital ad campaign targeting top literary and poetry sites Prize, and has been hailed by T he New York Times as “a ∙ Comprehensive social media campaign dynamic craftsperson” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.” She resides in Los Angeles. morgan-parker.com
Blending memoir and cultural criticism, NONFICTION 6 Matthew Specktor explores family legacy, the lives of artists, and a city that embodies both dreams and disillusionment. Always Crashing in the Same Car I n 2006, Matthew Specktor moved into a crum- bling Los Angeles apartment opposite the one in which F. Scott Fitzgerald spent the last moments On Art, Crisis, and Los of his life. Fitz had been Specktor’s first literary idol, Angeles, California someone whose own passage through Hollywood a mem o ir b y MATTHE W S PE C KTO R had, allegedly, broken him. Freshly divorced, pro- fessionally flailing, and reeling from his mother’s cancer diagnosis, Specktor was feeling unmoored. But rather than giving in or “cracking up,” he em- barked on an obsessive journey to make sense of the mythologies of “success” and “failure” that haunt the artist’s life and the American imagination. Part memoir, part cultural history, part portrait of place, Always Crashing in the Same Car explores Hollywood through a certain kind of collapse. It’s a vibrant and intimate inspection of failure told through the lives of iconic, if under-sung, artists—Carole Eastman, Eleanor Perry, Warren Zevon, Tuesday Weld, and Hal Ashby, among others—and the author’s own family history. Through this constellation of Hollywood figures, he unearths a fascinating alternate history of the city that raised him and explores the ways in which curtailed ambition, insufficiency, and loss shape all our lives. At once deeply personal and broadly erudite, it is a story of an art form (the movies), a city (Los Angeles), and one person’s attempt to create mean- ing out of both. Above all, Specktor creates a moving US $17.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $23.95 · NONFICTION search for optimism alongside the inevitability of ISBN 978-1-951142-62-9 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 350 pages failure and reveals the still-resonant power of art to ON SALE JULY 27, 2021 help us navigate the beautiful ruins that await us all. N AT ION A L M A RKE T I NG C A M PA IG N MATTHEW SPECKTOR is the author of the novels ∙ Select author appearances American Dream Machine and ∙ National media campaign, including reviews, features, That Summertime Sound; a and original essays nonfiction book, T he Sting; and the forthcoming memoir ∙ Comprehensive online and social media outreach The Golden Hour(Ecco/ HarperCollins). His writing has appeared in The New York Times,The Paris Review, The Believer, T in House, Vogue, GQ, B lack Clock, and Open City. He has been a MacDowell fellow, and is a founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He resides in Los Angeles. matthewspecktor.com
7 POETRY From the acclaimed author of Milk Fed, The Pisces, and So Sad Today, Superdoom Superdoom showcases Broder as one of the most original and audacious Selected Poems poets working today. po ems by M ELI SSA BRODER S uperdoom: Selected Poems brings together the best of Broder’s three cult out-of-print poetry collections—When You Say One Thing but Mean Your Mother, Meat Heart, and Scarecrone—as well as her fourth collection, Last Sext. Embracing the sacred and the profane, often simultaneously, Broder gazes into the abyss and at the human body, but with humor and heartbreak, lust and terror. Broder’s language is entirely her own, marked by brutal strange- ness and raw intimacy. At turns essayistic and surreal, bouncing between the grotesque and the transcendent, Superdoom is a must-have for longtime fans and the perfect introduction to one of our most brilliant and original poets. US $18.95 · Paper Trade Original · CAN $24.95 · POETRY ISBN 978-1-951142-65-0 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 200 pages ON SALE AUGUST 10, 2021 N AT I ON A L M A RK E T I NG C A M PAI G N ∙ National media campaign, including TV, radio, and MELISSA BRODER is online interviews the author of the novel The Pisces, the essay collection ∙ Inclusion in Tin House Linebreakers promotion So Sad Today, and four ∙ Digital ad campaign targeting top literary and poetry sites poetry collections, including ∙ Massive social media campaign Last Sext. Her next novel, Milk Fed, will be published ∙ Select author appearances to bullet point list by Scribner in February ∙ Including extensive promotional on all of author’s 2021. Broder has written for The New York Times, Elle. high-traffic social platforms com, VICE, Vogue Italia, and New York Magazine’s The Cut. She is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry. Broder received her BA from Tufts University and her MFA from City College of New York. She lives in Los Angeles. melissabroder.com
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