Braddock, PA: Alleyway Books, July 11, 2017. Every Single Bone in My Brain is an enthralling debut story collection—by turns electric and thoughtful, comic and wise. A young music journalist tries to avoid becoming a band groupie, only to discover she has far more to offer to their music than.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, March 2013. Get ready. These are not your mother's bedtime stories. In this mesmerizing debut collection, Aubrey Hirsch will lead you into the darkest recesses of human life, where hope and longing and love and loss look all too much like one another. Each of.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, August 8, 2013. Like the existential quest of Richard Wright’s Bigger Thomas or Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov, Anita Palatino’s journey is one you won’t forget. In this gripping new novel, Catherine Gammon will take you into the psychological danger zone of desperate longing and unfulfilled desire before.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, June 28, 2016. Called “the mighty Sasquatch of American Fiction” by Michael Chabon, renowned literary outlaw Chuck Kinder steps once again onto the landscape of American letters with the paperback reissue of his 1979 novel, The Silver Ghost. Available from Braddock Avenue Books, June 2016.Jimbo.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, May 2019. The author of the award-winning What the Zhang Boys Know (“…utterly beautiful and unforgettable”—Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang) now gives us a heart-rending first novel about love, displacement, and the powerful ghosts that haunt so many families.The Alexanders have farmed the.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, March 2018. Eli was right. The act of kindness he envisioned as a lesson to his young son Mark would have serious consequences. Just not the ones he imagined. In carefully modulated prose, Curtis Smith takes us on a journey into one family’s encounter with.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, May 2019. Widely known as a masterful storyteller, David H. Lynn is also the highly regarded editor of The Kenyon Review. In this probing collection of new and selected stories, Lynn brings his keen eye and astute sense of drama and narrative to bear on.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, 2024. In prose filled with lyrical remembrance, David H. Lynn tells the story of his fifty-year relationship with Topsham, a small town in Devon on the River Exe. Like many love affairs, this one began with a series of chance encounters. But over the decades.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, June 12, 2018. In New York City, college isn’t just paid for—it’s bought. Admissions draws back the veil of privilege on New York’s affluent applicants and the families that will do anything to secure their futures. The right high school, the right SAT tutor…everything counts.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, January 30, 2018. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough arrived in the United States from Poland in 1984, bringing memories of life under a totalitarian regime, where the personal was always political. In essay after essay in Objects of Affection, her remarkable debut, Hryniewicz-Yarbrough shows the immigrant’s double perspective.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, 2022. Praise for RemembranceThurmond’s poems of personal loss move us by implying a shared vulnerability. They also square up quietly to the imponderable impact of death and how it impresses irreversibly lost opportunities. He melds “poetic” language with the colloquial to suggest the elusiveness of.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, February 2014. What saves us? It’s a question as old—and as urgent—as humanity itself. With this remarkable book, award-winning poet, essayist, and short story writer Gary Fincke opens an exciting new chapter of his career. Structured as a novel-in-stories, How Blasphemy Sounds to God explores.....
Braddock, PA: Alleyway Books, February 2017. In story after story of this highly anticipated collection, Geeta Kothari lays bare an America deeply uneasy about its heterogeneity. In “Small Bang Only,” a man from the former Yugoslavia struggles to come to terms with his wife’s successful career in America only to.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, November 2023. A young, talented Viktor Myrnikov is on the brink of realizing his lifelong dream of playing for the National Hockey League when a catastrophic plane crash kills all of his former Russian teammates, including his secret boyfriend, Nikolai, shattering his plans—and his heart. In this skillfully plotted.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, September 2019. For music journalist Daniel Morus the notion that things could be going better is a double album-sized understatement. He finds himself on the wrong side of a brief second marriage, professionally irrelevant, and facing the last act of his life with few friends.....
Pittsburgh, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, June 2023. Described as a “...tender postmodern meditation [on] …the human heart itself” (Ron A. Austin), James Brubaker’s new novel employs a constellation of narrative possibilities in its quest to understand how we can live with loneliness and grief. For some time, the narrator, a......
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, 2023. The stories in Jen Michalski’s new collection reveal an America in which ideas of genuine community ring false and the spiritual backbone of family life is damaged, perhaps beyond repair. Characters, many of them queer Gen-Xers of a certain age, find themselves looking—often desperately—for.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, 2022. Working on a broad dramatic canvas, Jewel Thomas’s new novel, Abandoned in the Lions’ Den, takes the reader on a heady rollercoaster ride through the most influential events of the twentieth century African-American experience—the Great Migration, the Depression, World War II, and the cultural revolution.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, Oct. 19, 2021. Described as a “…collective of love and longing, of disappointment and loss and, ultimately, faith” (William Lychack), John Vanderslice’s new novel, Nous Nous, lays out a dark vision of the awful human consequences a community faces when one man’s small world is.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, September 2020. In the small lake town where LuLu, Rainey, and Saul are growing up, day-to-day life is anything but easy. Navigating the usual obstacles of youth would be enough for anyone, but for this trio a world marred by the Vietnam war, detached parents.....
Braddock, PA: Alleyway Books, October 10, 2017. With the publication of Remember to Forget Me comes the highly anticipated follow-up to Kerry Neville’s award-winning debut, Necessary Lies. In this new volume, Neville peers with a steady eye into the universal struggle to lead a life of purpose and dignity. In.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, October 2023. Timely. Relevant. Deeply felt. The stories in Khem K. Aryal’s new collection present a deeply human perspective on the travails—and triumphs—of a group of Nepalese immigrants struggling with the consequences of their decision to come to America. Having been told that immigration to.....
Braddock PA: Braddock Avenue Books, May 2024. Luke Rolfes’s ambitious debut novel, Sleep Lake, ties together domestic drama with elements of a crime thriller, amplified by the pressure cooker of ecological disaster. Janie and Thomas are a married couple, once so in love, but now starting to be careworn by work.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, 2024. Mary Troy’s new story collection slices open the beating heart of the Midwest to reveal a world in which characters work to understand the paradox of modern community: the yearning to be seen and known and respected, while at the same time wishing, often.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, November 7, 2013. Walter Farnham is on a mission. Only he doesn’t know it. Living above the garage of his former wife and her new husband, Walt has never been one to finish things, not even a divorce. In fact, the closest he’s come to.....
