Product Description: One of the unheralded masterpieces of twentieth-century American fiction, LightWhile There Is Light is acclaimed poet Keith Waldrop’s autobiographical novel about the myriad ghosts left behind by his family. Born to a deeply religious mother, the narrator and his siblings are led across the US as she searches for the “right” religious sect―a trip that ends with her speaking in tongues, and finally her total isolation...read more

Product Description: Longlisted for the Orange Prize 2012. He planned to steal with these horses, who were all better than they looked on paper. The trick was to get in and get out fast. But could he really pull it off? Could he be that sure, could he count on being that lucky? Listen carefully my dear...read more

When this novel first appeared on Sun & Moon Press in 1999, it was selected as one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times. Jaimy Gordon takes on the difficult subject of a young girl who, coming of age and "coming out" sexually, falls in love with an older woman. The relationship between the two-doctor and patient-turns into a marvelous voyage of self-discovery.

Product Description: Fiction. Translation. "Marie Beig's HERMINE is a heartbreaking bestiary, a human life told in sixty-four animals. The book's design is apt, since its protagonist elicits less regard from her farm family than its animals do. Imagine a world in which your first memories are of your 'father's bad-tempered scowl and the angry faces of sisters and brothers who were struck and struck back...read more

Product Description: Vladimir Klavdievich Arseniev (1872-1930) undertook twelve major scientific expeditions between 1902 and 1930 in the Siberian Far East, and authored some sixty works from the geographical, geological, botanical, and ethnographic data he amassed...read more

In the era of the sexual revolution, Jane Turner rebels against her conservative parents by driving across the country, spending a year in search of freedom and her own independence

Product Description: This is the third edition of one of the finest comic novels to appear in the last half century, a book that has been compared with the very best of Flann OÂ’Brien, Angela Carter, and Witold Gombrowicz. Appearing first in 1974, Shamp of the City-Solo quickly became an underground sensation...read more