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One of America's most celebrated authors offers a powerful story suffused with a Native American sense of magic. Originally an important hunting ground for the Ojibway, the city of Minneapolis draws f
?In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York.Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, br
An American classic, available for a limited time as an Olive EditionThe poignant and moving tale of a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century in the slums of Williamsburg “
An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn—author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books—Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen E
A powerful debut novel about a group of 30-somethings struggling for connection and belonging, Migratory Animals centers on a protagonist who finds herself torn between love and duty.When Flannery, a
Told in alternating voices, this brilliant novel, capturing the very essence of human experience, follows Anna Oh, a middle-age wife, mother and artist, as she, after 27 years of marriage, divorces he
For two hundred years the pessimists have dominated public discourse, insisting that things will soon be getting much worse. But in fact, life is getting better?and at an accelerating rate. Food avail
From the jungles of Mexico to the farm country of Ohio, this lively history of the ball and the evolution of human play and civilization follows the author, an anthropologist, as he embarks on a globa
A vivid and intricate novel-in-stories, The Scatter Here Is Too Great explores the complicated lives of ordinary people whose fates unexpectedly converge after a deadly bomb blast at the Karachi train
In 1871, a young girl sold into servitude by her mother struggles to survive in the Bowery until she finds a friend in Dr. Sadie, a female physician who vows to teach and protect her from falling prey
Republished and newly available in a P.S. edition: a bold, highly charged novel of restlessness, angst, and yearning, by a brilliant young writer to watch.Look at me don’t look at me look at me look a
“Sean Howe’s history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking version of my favorite story, that of how a bunch of weirdoes changed the world…That it’s all true is just frost
A riveting, brilliantly written debut novel, The Death of Bees is a coming-of-age story in which two young sisters attempt to hold the world at bay after the mysterious death of their parents.Marnie a
From internationally bestselling author Nikki Gemmell comes a tantalizing story of love within marriage—and alongside it.Under her Chanel suit and designer lingerie, Connie Carven is no longer the typ
In News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh—bestselling author of Faith and The Condition—returns to the territory of her acclaimed novel Baker Towers with a collection of short stories set in and around the
Armed with the personal notebooks of the mysterious World War II spy Theodore Morde, an adventurer who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, journalist Christopher S. Stewart sets out in search of th
Acclaimed author Lionel Shriver—author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the vivid psychological novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, now a major motion
At once intimate and epic, The Orchardist is historical fiction at its best, in the grand literary tradition of William Faulkner, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Proulx, and Toni Morrison.
Bonaventure Arrow didn’t make a peep when he was born, and the doctor nearly took him for dead. But he was only listening, placing sound inside quiet and gaining his bearings. By the time he is five,
