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  • Bound

    A Novel

    Antonya Nelson is known for her razor-sharp depictions ofcontemporary family life in all of its sometimes sad, sometimeshilarious complexity. Her latest novel has roots in her own youth inWichita, in the neighborhood stalked by the serial killer known as BTK(Bind, Torture, and Kill). A story of wayward love and lost memory, ofpublic and private lives twisting out of control, Bound is Nelson's most ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Funny Once

    Stories

    Michael Chabon once said, “I scan the tables of contents of magazines, looking for Antonya Nelson's name, hoping that she has decided to bless us again.” And now she has blessed us again, with a bounty of the stories for which she is so beloved. Her stories are clear-eyed, hard-edged, beautifully formed. In the title story, “Funny Once,” a couple held together by bad behavior fall into a lie with ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Female Trouble

    Stories

    "Nelson's prose is precise and energetic, and her insights delight because they manage to be at once surprising and so right as to seem inevitable."-- The New York Times Book ReviewAntonya Nelson is widely regarded as one of America's most talented women writers -- The New Yorker has named her one of the twenty best writers of her generation -- and with Female Trouble she returns to the short ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Nothing Right

    Short Stories

    Set in the American southwest, this collection of stories feature characters transitioning from adolescence, to young adulthood, to middle age. Their personal conflicts parallel those of contemporary Americans, post-911, as these artfully rendered characters try to keep themselves intact individually-- and as part of a family-- in the new millennium. Moving and evocative, Nothing Right explores ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Talking In Bed

    Two men meet briefly in a hospital, where both are visiting their dying fathers. They speak again just a few months later, when one of them impulsively calls the other, a psychologist, and a friendship of sorts starts to form. After the psychologist leaves his wife a few weeks later, she begins to fall in love with his friend, creating a triangle that threatens to destroy all three and their ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • On the Rocks

    A Novella

    In On the Rocks, Eva Marino’s free-spirited mother Leonora is on the cusp of her second marriage and Eva is to serve as the maid of honor. Between binge-watching episodes of Midsomer Murders, attending therapy, and drinking mojitos at the Grumpy Monk Tavern directly after the yoga classes she takes with her mother, Eva attempts to keep her grief at bay.Eva knows she has to step up for her mother ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Some Fun

    Stories and a Novella

    One of the most award-winning, critically acclaimed story writers working today, Antonya Nelson has a list of accolades that is astonishing for any writer, but especially for one as young as she. With her newest collection, Nelson once again proves herself worthy of her stellar reputation, delivering seven taut, striking stories and a brilliant novella, all exploring the tensions of troubled ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Down on the Sidewalk

    Stories about Children and Childhood from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

    Series series
    Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world through young eyes and hearts. Wise beyond their years—or soon to be—Ruthie, Omar, J.J., and the other kids in these stories veer in and out of touching distance to hard lessons about trust, love, and mortality. However engaged or aloof, grownups are always nearby. ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    Bound

    A Novel

    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 32 min

    Antonya Nelson is known for her razor-sharp depictions of contemporary family life in all of its sometimes sad, sometimes hilarious complexity. Her latest novel has roots in her own youth in Wichita, in the neighborhood stalked by the serial killer known as BTK (Bind, Torture, and Kill). A story of wayward love and lost memory, of public and private lives twisting out of control, Bound is Nelson's ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    8 hours 5 min

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    $24.99 USD

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    Bennington Girls Are Easy

    A Novel

    Narrated by Rachel Fulginiti ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 48 min

    **Chosen as one of "Summer's Best Books" by PEOPLE MAGAZINE: "Suprisingly insightful and seriously fun."One of O MAGAZINE*'s "*Season's Best"ACOSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE "July Reads" PickNamed one of REFINERY 29's “21 New Authors to Watch” in 2015Charlotte Silver dazzles with a ruefully funny coming-of-age novel that follows two recent Bennington grads who are determined to make it in the Big Apple.* ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Visit from the Goon Squad

    Pulitzer Prize Winner

    by Jennifer Egan ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune).One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD