Robert Boswell's first novel since Century's Son showcases once again his "dazzling technical skill, intelligence and moral seriousness" (The New York Times Book Review)*A Library Journal "Best Indie Fiction of 2013" *At age thirty-three, James Candler seems to be well on the road to success. He's in line for a big promotion at Onyx Springs, the treatment facility where he's a therapist. He has a fiancée, a sizable house, and a Porsche. But . . . he's falling in love with another woman, he's underwater on his mortgage, and he's put his hapless best friend in charge of his signature therapeutic program. Even the GPS on his car can't seem to predict where he should turn next. And his clients are struggling in their own hilarious, heartbreaking ways to keep their lives on track. How can he help them if he can't help himself? In Tumbledown, Robert Boswell presents a large, unforgettable cast of characters who are all failing and succeeding in various degrees to make sense of our often-irrational world. In a moving narrative twist, he boldly reckons with the extent to which tragedy can be undone, the impossible accommodated.

An enthralling and wise new collection from the author of Century's Son and one of America's most respected writersI was twenty-nine years old and wanted to change before I hit thirty. Clete and I developed a plan for me . . . a plan that would work all that summer and beyond. Even after I left the mountain, it stuck.Robert Boswell's extraordinary range is on full display in this crackling new collection. Set mainly in small, gritty American cities no farther east than Chicago and as far west as El Paso, each of these stories is a world unto itself. Two marriages end, one by death, the other by divorce, and the two wives, lifelong friends, become strangers to each other. A young man's obsession with visiting a fortune-teller leaves him nearly homeless. And in the unforgettable title story, a man dubbed Keen recounts the summer he spent on a mountain with his best friend, Clete, and a loose band of slackers, living in a borrowed house, abstaining from all drugs (other than mushrooms and beer)―and ultimately asking just what kind of harm we can do to one another.

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Still grieving over the death of their son, who had killed himself ten years before, Morgan, a union activist turned garbage collector, and his pol-sci professor wife, Zhenya, have settled into a static existence, whose routine is shaken by the pregnancy of their teenage daughter and by the arrival of Zhenya's father, a Russian émigré writer who turns their lives upside down. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Moving to Persimmon, New Mexico, with her unconventional mother, a teenage Rita finds her life taking unexpected turns when she enters the local high school, acquires a boyfriend, and becomes involved in the revenge scheme of Rudy Salazar, a boy from thewrong side of the tracks

Exhausted with worry over just about everything, Angela, the mother of fifteen-year-old Dulcie, decides to enlist her ex-husband's help in raising the girl

Exploring the complex and conflicting world of human relationships, an anthology of short stories by the author of Mystery Ride includes 'Rain,' 'The Good Man,' 'Glissando,' 'The Earth's Crown,' and other tales. 12,500 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Product Description: After Tom, the most likely Warren to break the family cycle of self destruction, drops out of Berkeley, he finds that he and Ask--the two tormented middle-children--together form the eye of the Warren hurricane

American expatriate Leon Green, manager of a rundown hotel, and other local residents of La Boca, a Central American seaside village, are forced to confront a whole new world when the country's civil war begins to affect the town