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F uck the Fuckity Fuckin' Fucker. Readers of Katherine Dunn won't be surprised that this was her father's favorite sentence, or that, as a young girl, she heard it as a kind of profane poem, a secret song. For many of us, the language of Geek Love carries a similar staying power, born of Dunn's agile use of language and her strange, beautiful diction. And as a true exegete of the expletive, she remained undividedly devoted to obscenity--both a...

A back-to-the-land classic" (Garden & Gun) that will "inspire you to embrace a simpler life" (O, The Oprah Magazine).

Finalist for a 2019 Sidewise Award "Conceptually adventurous yet full of feeling. . . . smart, thought-provoking, and thoroughly enjoyable." --Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown

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For fans of Eowyn Ivey, Rose Tremaine, and Kate Atkinson, The Orphan of Salt Winds is a bewitching debut about the secrets that haunt us.

A New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year at Esquire, Seattle Times, Minnesota Star Tribune, Huffington Post, and Publishers Weekly. From "quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories" (NPR), Ninety-Nine Stories of God finds Joy Williams reeling between the sublime and the surreal, knocking down the barriers between the workaday and the divine.

An NPR Best Book of the Year"Unsettling and eerie, Bitter Orange is an ideal chiller." --Time Magazine From the author of Our Endless Numbered Days and Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange is a seductive psychological portrait, a keyhole into the dangers of longing and how far a woman might go to escape her past.

A People Magazine Pick and winner of the Miles Franklin Book Award Funny, poignant, and galvanizing by turns, Josephine Wilson's award-winning novel explores many kinds of extinction--natural, racial, national, and personal--and what we might do to prevent them.

While the mystery of the cat can never ultimately be defined, Michaels comes as close as possible to revealing its essence.

Even those who have lost everything, still have something to lose.

Teenage girls tell their most urgent stories in this collection--a brave and timely portrait of teenage-girl life in the United States over the past 20 years. Together their narratives capture indelible snapshots of the past and lay bare hopes, insecurities, and wisdom for the future. 1/2.

For fans of Mark Haddon, Tony Earley, and Jonathan Safran Foer, an epic tale of boyhood from an unforgettable new voice. "Disorienting, weirdly wise, indescribably transparent, impossibly recognizable. Fun, too." --Joy Williams

A book-length poem navigating belief, black lives, the tragedies of Trump, and the boundaries of being a woman. "When Rap Spoke Straight to God is utterly transporting. In language both elevated and slangy, saucy and tender, Dawson lovingly weaves the reader around her finger." --Jennifer Egan

Winner of the 2021 Edgar Award - G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards An NPR Best Book of the Year "Gripping, subtle, magnificently written." --The New York Times Book Review "A delectable page-turner . . . Vera Kelly introduces a fascinating new spy to literature's mystery canon--one we hope sticks around long beyond this snappy, intimate debut." --Entertainment Weekly

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The Seas took me back to how I felt as a kid, when you're newly falling in love with literature, newly shocked by its capacity to cast a spell..." --Maggie Nelson (from the Introduction) A Most Anticipated Book of Summer at BuzzFeed, NYLON, and more.

Throw on your sunglasses and prop up the parasol, Tin House is back with another Summer Reading edition.

An exhilarating literary mystery, Swimming Lessons keeps readers guessing until the final page.

With a new introduction by Karen Russell, the 40th anniversary edition of The Changeling is a visionary fairy tale and a work of mythic genius by one of our best writers.