Literary Fiction | Fiction
Dec.28.2008
John, a lecturer in Philosophy at Delhi University returns to his flat one evening to find a letter waiting for him. A subsequent meeting with the author of the letter puts a question mark over the supposed death of John's fiancée six year earlier. He temporarily suspends his work with the hijra...
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Dec.21.2008
This debut is a stunner ... rendered so authentically it had us shaking the sand out of our shoes ... Lifting the flap on Bedouin tents, Hamilton peers into the Arabic village of Ein Fadr, a land seething with long-held tensions and filled with extremes that entice. – PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY (STARRED...
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Dec.21.2008
In Christopher Meeks's new book, The Brightest Moon of the Century, Edward, a young Minnesotan, is blessed with an abundance of "experience"--first when his mother dies and next when his father, an encyclopedia salesman, shoehorns Edward into a private boys school where he's tortured and...
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Dec.17.2008
A collection of fiction monologues covering young to old in the tradiiton of Sherwood Anderson short stories as portraits of the lives of characters around him. Smith's third book of ficiton and his first with Bird Dog Publishing.
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Dec.15.2008
After a life of misdemeanors, Lee had hoped that death would bring an end to things; instead, he awakens anew into a very bad place full of cold weather, strange tortures, and some of history's most hapless people. His one consolation? An opportunity to chase down his beloved wife, who preceded...
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Dec.12.2008
An anthology of fiction, nonfiction and poetry on raising a child with medical or developmental difficulties.
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Nov.22.2008
The novel is a clash of American mythology with contemporary British reality. Jack Maertens and Neil Blake are tired of life on London's Holloway Road and set out north in search of meaning and freedom. Along the way they listen to a scratchy old cassette recording of Jack Kerouac's Beat classic On...
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Nov.15.2008
Years after dropping out of Harlem society, David McKay, a handsome lawyer from a prominent Strivers' Row family, returns home, devastated by the news of his sister's suicide.
What caused her to take her life? Why did she marry a man she barely knew, giving him a claim to the family home? Why did...
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Nov.12.2008
Dolan Gibb has driven the same section of Arizona desert highway for years, where crosses and shrines litter the side of the highway like confetti for the dead. He’s passed them thousands of times and never given them a second’s glance. To him, like everyone else, they are places of remembering,...
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