An Indie Next Pick She calls herself Ash, but that?s not her real name. A farmer?s faithful wife, she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, Ash Thompson becomes a hero, a folk legend, a madwoman and a traitor to the American cause. But why did Ash leave and her husband stay? Why can she not return? What will she have to go through to make it back home?

Product Description: She calls herself Ash, but that s not her real name. She is a farmer s faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. "Neverhome" tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South...read more

Product Description: Fiction. Translated from the French by Anne-Laure Tissut and Laird Hunt. "As I was becoming a teenager, that is to say a serious person, he was becoming an eccentric, an inconsistent and flighty person. We missed each other."In this story, conceived as a biographical hypothesis, a meeting between the author and his grandfather takes place posthumously...read more

Product Description: Finalist for 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award"There is always a surprise in the voice and in the heart of Laird Hunt's stories, with its echoes of habit caught in a timeless dialect, so we see the world he gives us as if new. 'You hear something like that and it walks out the door with you...read more

Product Description: "Innovative, comic, bizarre and beautiful, The Impossibly reads as if Donald Barthelme were channeling Alain Robbe-Grillet, Samuel Beckett, Ben Marcus and reruns of Get Smart."—Time Out New YorkWhen the anonymous narrator botches an assignment from the clandestine organization that employs him, everyone in his life becomes a participant in his punishment...read more

Product Description: Fiction. Available again for the first time in a decade, Laird Hunt's stories, mock parables and false histories posit a Paris pushed none-too-gently through its own gilt-framed looking glass, turning both ends of the telescope on the old men, barbers, ventriloquists, orange sellers, battling lovers, ghosts and highly lucid dreamers doing their best to inhabit it...read more

Product Description: Set in a dream-like European city reminiscent of Barcelona, along a boulevard teeming with artists who perform as living statues, comes the beautiful and frightening story of a man running from his past, a woman consumed by grief, and the forces that pursue them both...read more

Product Description: “Strange, original, and utterly brilliant—Laird Hunt is one of the most talented young writers on the American scene today.”—Paul AusterHenry, a New Yorker left destitute by circumstance and obsession, is plucked from vagrancy by a shadowy outfit whose primary business is arranging for staged murders of anxiety-ridden clients unhinged by the “events downtown” and seeking to -experience—and live through—their own carefully executed assassinations...read more

Product Description: "In the center of the county in the center of Indiana in the heart of the country, and down a long, dark hallway," Noah Summers, a simple man who has led a far from simple life, sits before a roaring fire, drifting in and out of sleep...read more

Product Description: This rather sordid tale of AIDS, Ecstasy, bisexual promiscuity, hypocrisy, bureaucracy, and betrayal should help change the American image of Slovenia as a primitive backwater, but it could hardly be what the Llujubljana Chamber of Commerce had in mind...read more

Product Description: "The first time we met, it was about a stapler, I think." Deadpan delivery and a sly eye for detail characterize the anonymous secret agent in Laird Hunt's tense, funny spy noir. When the nameless narrator botches an assignment for the clandestine organization that employs him, everyone in his life—including his new girlfriend—is revealed to be either true-blue, double operative, or both...read more