"A darkly funny coming-of-age novel where Florida's sun-drenched strangeness meets the dangers of derelict parenting and misplaced devotion"-- Provided by publisher.

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER "Magnificent ... splendid.... I hope The Counterlife felt, as Mr. Roth wrote it, like a triumph, because that is certainly how it reads to me." --New York...

From the looted tombs of Tuscany to the art galleries of California, a sweeping saga about family, betrayal, and the deadly trade in ancient treasures. Tuscany, 1972. Beneath rolling vineyards and...

"Dark, raw, and very funny, [this book] introduces us to Maya, a young woman with a smart mouth, time to kill, and a heroin hobby that isn't much fun anymore. Maya's been able to get by in New York...

"A rich, panoramic exploration of female friendship, class, new motherhood, and independence"-- Provided by publisher.

"Every morning Laila Bansal wakes up before dawn--hours before her job at the family winery--and trains in hand-to-hand combat with her adopted aunts who, when not tending to their thriving vineyard,...

"Written in sharp, impressionistic prose steeped in horror, Amparo Dávila's stories are tiny nightmares come to life. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who shows, sometimes in just a few...

"In her electrifying fourth collection, Jana Prikryl harnesses the power of King Lear to look back at her family story and see more clearly our own mad kings, our hunger for authority. Listening for...

"How to Love in Sanskrit captures the glorious spectrum of romantic intimacies, from the euphoric thrill of stolen glances to the maddening desire of longing, from the comic tangle of...

For fans of Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Assembly, an intimate and darkly propulsive story told over the course of a dinner party, from its careful preparation through its explosive, irrevocable...

Robbie has spent most of life wondering about his real father, Mike, who long since left their family due to his struggles with visions and mistrust of the modern world. Robbie can't forget how much...

From a key voice of the Harlem Renaissance, Claude McKay's classic novel about the vibrant but perilous world of Jazz Age Harlem, freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line...

"An amateur herpetologist gets swindled by women he meets on lizard-care message boards; a dental hygienist takes a doomed trip to see a sham psychic on the Atlantic City boardwalk; a gruesome gag...