Product Description: In J. Robert Lennon’s America, a portal to another universe can be discovered with surprising nonchalance in a suburban backyard, adoption almost reaches the level of blood sport, and old pals return from the dead to steal your girlfriend...read more

A mesmerizing novel about memory, guilt, power, and violenceIn the late winter of 2006, I returned to my home town and bought 612 acres of land on the far western edge of the county.” So begins, innocuously enough, J. Robert Lennon’s gripping, spooky, and brilliant new novel. Unforthcoming, formal, and more than a little defensive in his encounters with curious locals, Eric Loesch starts renovating a run-down house in the small, upstate New York town of his childhood. When he inspects the title to the property, however, he discovers a chunk of land in the middle of his woods that he does not own. What’s more, the name of the owner is blacked out.Loesch sets out to explore the forbidding and almost impenetrable forest—lifeless, it seems, but for a bewitching white deer—that is the site of an eighteenth-century Indian massacre. But this peculiar adventure story has much to do with America’s current military misadventures—and Loesch’s secrets come to mirror the American psyche in a paranoid age. The answer to what—and who—might lie at the heart of Loesch’s property stands at the center of this daring and riveting novel from the author whose writing, according to Ann Patchett, “contains enough electricity to light up the country.””

A black comic novel chronicles the odyssey of Albert Lippincott, a neurotic mailman and resident of Nestor, New York, whose efficiency hides his penchant for reading other people's mail, nervous breakdown, disastrous marriage and troubled, sexually ambiguous relationship with his sister. Reprint.

A black comic novel chronicles the odyssey of Albert Lippincott, a neurotic, mailman and resident of Nestor, New York, whose efficiency hides his penchant for reading other people's mail, nervous breakdown, disastrous marriage and troubled, sexually ambiguous relationship with his sister. 25,000 first printing. First serial, Granta.

Wracked by guilt over the death of his brother while fighting in World War II, Grant Person abandons his family's Montana ranch to pursue life as an Atlantic fisherman, until the death of his mother and the disappearance of his father draws him back home to accept his birthright as part of a hard-luck sheep-ranching family. By the author of The Light of Falling Stars. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

The Mix family are a dysfunctional bunch who feature in their father's comic strip. When he dies, the kids get the inheritance except the 5th child, a struggling artist. He has to draw the strip to get anything in a loser-lose-all, winner-take-all bid.

Extravagantly praised by reviewers, a moving and graceful debut novel about the nature of grief and love explores the taut connections that join the survivors of an airplane crash, a group of vulnerable people from around the globe. Reprint. PW.