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Finally in trade paperback, complementing Bantam's new release of River Teeth and our consistently bestselling edition of The River Why , here is The Brothers K , a lyrical and lovely novel of family.

Quite a Year for Plums: A Novel (Vintage)

Quite a Year for Plums: A Novel (Vintage)

by Bailey White

Anyone who has read the best-selling Mama Makes Up Her Mind or listened to Bailey White's commentaries on NPR knows that she is a storyteller of inimitable wit and charm. Now, in her stunningly accomplished first novel, she introduces us to the peculiar yet lovable people who inhabit a small town in south Georgia. Meet serious, studious Roger, the peanut pathologist and unlikely love object of half the town's... (more)

Remainder

by Tom McCarthy

A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it. Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can’t quite place. How he goes about bringing his visions to life–and what happens afterward–makes for one of the most riveting, complex, and unusual novels in recent memory. Remainder is about the... (more)

The Sabotage Cafe

by Joshua Furst

Of his debut story collection, Short People, the Los Angeles Times proclaimed: “Furst makes it all explicit—the cruelty, the astonishment, the treachery, the rapture—and in doing so creates a thoughtful if disturbing portrait of what it means to be a child. Or, more to the point, what it means to be human.” He now follows that with a gripping first novel about a mother and daughter, the ties that bind them... (more)

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