In an unnamed country at the beginning of the last century, a child called Pavla is born to peasant parents. Her arrival, fervently anticipated and conceived in part by gypsy tonics and archaic prescr
A stunning, provocative novel, Little Nothing is the story of Pavla, a child scorned for her physical deformity, hunted and tormented as a woman, whose passion and salvation lies in her otherworldly
A stunning, provocative novel, Little Nothing is the story of Pavla, a child scorned for her physical deformity, hunted and tormented as a woman, whose passion and salvation lies in her otherworldly
A debut novel by the author of Babe in Paradise finds young Will Burton struggling to make sense of a redefined family after his father's disappearance, young Rogelio Augilar risking his life to illeg
A debut collection of short stories journeys into the lives of characters who live on the periphery of the glamour and success of modern-day Los Angeles in such works as "What I Saw from Where I Stood
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mary Coin, a masterful, intimate story of two young girls, joined in an unlikely friendship, whose lives are shattered in a single, unthinkable moment.Mig
In her first novel since The God of War, the critically acclaimed author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange’s ?Migrant Mother” photograph as inspiration for a breathtaking reinvention?a story of two w
Bestselling author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother photograph as inspiration for a story of two women?one famous and one forgotten?and their remarkable chance encounter. In 1936,
A Huffington Post Book Club Suggestion • An O: The Oprah Magazine Fall Pick • A LitHub Book You Should Read This September • One of The Millions' "Most Anticipated" for 2016“Marisa Silver’s beguiling
The year is 1978. Ares Ramirez, age 12, lives with his mother, Laurel, and his younger brother Malcolm in a trailer at the edge of the Salton Sea, an unintentionally man-made body of water in the midd
Marisa Silver dazzled and inspired readers with her critically acclaimed The God of War (a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist), praised by Richard Russo as “a novel of great metaphorical dep
Prompted by the burden of responsibility he has assumed for his mentally handicapped younger brother, twelve-year-old Ares Ramirez is drawn into a dark and dangerous world of drugs, violence, and sex
