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ISBN 978-1-959030-29-4 • CQ 36
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“Hilarious and heartbreaking.”
—OMAR
EL AKKAD“One of the funniest, truest, and most heartfelt books I have ever read. Zeineddine writes with so much grace and understanding, so much love and compassion, so much mastery that these stories will become part of who you are.”
Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more.
In Dearborn, a father teaches his son how to cheat the IRS and hide their cash earnings inside of frozen chickens. Tensions heighten within a closeknit group of couples when a mysterious man begins to frequent the local gym pool, dressed in speedos printed with nostalgic images of Lebanon. And a failed stage actor attempts to drive a young Lebanese man with ambitions of becoming a Hollywood action hero to LA, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have other plans.
By turns wildly funny, incisive, and deeply moving, Dearborn introduces readers to an arresting new voice in contemporary fiction and invites us all to consider what it means to be part of a place and community, and how it is that we help one another survive.
GHASSAN ZEINEDDINE was born in Washington, DC, and raised in the Middle East. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Oberlin College, and co-editor of the creative nonfiction anthology Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Ohio.
—MORGAN TALTY
Move Like Water is a layered, beautiful, and profoundly moving evocation of a young marine biologist and sailor, her relationship with the sea, and the many wild creatures who inhabit it.
As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide's edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the sweep of the lighthouse beam. Now in her mid-twenties, working as marine biologist and sailor, Stowe draws on her professional experiences sailing tens of thousands of miles in the North Sea, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Celtic Sea, and the Caribbean to explore the human relationship with wild waters. Why is it, she asks, that she and so many others have been drawn to life at sea—and what might the water around us be able to teach us?
Braiding her powerful and deeply personal narrative and watercolor illustrations with six keystone marine creatures—the firecrow, sperm whale, albatross, humpback whale, shearwater, and the barnacle—Stowe invites readers to fall in love, as she has, with the sea and those that call it home, and to discover the majesty, wonder, and vulnerability of the underwater world.
For fans of Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard, Move Like Water is an inspiring, heartfelt hymn to the sea, a testament to finding and following a dream, and an unforgettable introduction to a deeply gifted nature writer of a new generation.
HANNAH STOWE lives in Dresden, Germany, writing, painting, and sailing her own boat named Larry. Move Like Water will be published by Granta in the UK in the Spring of 2023.
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ISBN 978-1-959030-10-2 • CQ 36 5" x 7 ¾" • 272 pages
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ON SALE SEPTEMBER 26, 2023 US $16.95 (CAN $22.95) • Trade Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-959030-11-9 • CQ 48 6" x 9" • 96 pages
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. . with the verve and vitality of Emily Dickinson if Dickinson had been born Cuban American at the end of the last century."
"Marvelous.
Taking its title from Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, Leslie Sainz’s Have You Been Long Enough at Table explores the personal and historical tragedies of the Cuban American experience through a distinctly feminine lens. Formally diverse with echoes of Spanish throughout, this debut collection critiques power and patriarchy as weaponized by the governments of the United States and the Republic of Cuba. In investigating the realities of displacement and inherited exile, Sainz honors her imagined past, present, and future as a result of the “revolution within the revolution”—the emancipation of Cuban women. Through lyric and associative meditations, Sainz anatomizes the unique grief of immigrant daughters, as the poems’ speaker discovers how family can be a microcosm of the very violence that displaced them. What emerges is a spiritual blueprint for disinheritance, radical self-determination, and the nuanced examinations of myth, ritual, and resistance.
The daughter of Cuban exiles, LESLIE SAINZ is the recipient of a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the Yale Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review Online, AGNI, jubilat, Narrative, and others. A three-time National Poetry Series finalist, she’s received scholarships, fellowships, and honors from CantoMundo, The Miami Writers Institute, The Adroit Journal, and The Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University. She is the managing editor of the New England Review.
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—TERRANCE HAYESHillary Dubie
“I was blown away. The Loneliness Files has a real opportunity to reshape and redefine what a cohesive, braided essay collection can be.”
I am overwhelmingly lonely. And I cannot believe that doesn’t matter and I will not believe there are not scores of others like me.
What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites us to consider this question with depth, heart, and ferocity, investigating the gaps that technology cannot fill and confronting a lifetime of loneliness.
Living alone as a middle-aged woman without children or pets and working forty hours a week from home, more than three hundred and fifty miles from her family and friends, Dixon begins watching mystery videos on YouTube, listening to true crime podcasts, and playing video game walk-throughs just to hear another human voice. She discovers the story of Joyce Carol Vincent, a woman who died alone, her body remaining in front of a glowing television set for three years before the world finally noticed. Searching for connection, Dixon plumbs the depths of communal loneliness, asking essential questions of herself and all of us: How had her past decisions left her so alone? Are we, as humans, linked by a shared loneliness? How do we see the world and our place in it? And finally, how do we find our way back to each other?
Searing and searching, The Loneliness Files is a groundbreaking memoir in essays that ultimately brings us together in its piercing, revelatory examination of how and why it is that we break apart.
Born and raised in Northeast Ohio, ATHENA DIXON is a poet, essayist, and editor. Her work is included in the anthology The BreakBeat Poets Vol.2: Black Girl Magic and her craft work appears in Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction She writes, edits, and resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
by ATHENA DIXON
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ON SALE OCTOBER 17, 2023
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Hazardous Spirits brilliantly captures a young woman’s world unsettled by mediums and spirits, revealing the devastating secrets that ghosts from the past can tell when given the voice to do so.
In 1920s Edinborough, Scotland, Evelyn Hazard is a young, middle-class housewife living the life she’s always expected—until her husband Robert upends everything with a startling announcement: he can communicate with the dead.
As the couple is pulled into the spiritualist movement—an underground, occult society of ritual and magic that emerged following the mass deaths of the Spanish Flu and First World War—Evelyn’s carefully composed world begins to unravel. And when long-held secrets from her past threaten to come to the surface, presenting her with the prospect of losing all she holds dear, Evelyn finds herself unable to avoid the question: is the man she loves a fraud, a madman or—most frighteningly—is he telling the truth?
Cloaked in a moody, beguiling backdrop of twentieth-century Scotland, Anbara Salam’s Hazardous Spirits brings a sparkling sense of period detail and dry humor to the life of a young woman calibrating her place in a changing world, and her shifting relationship with a man she thought she knew.
ANBARA SALAM is halfPalestinian and half-Scottish, and grew up in London. She is the author of Things Bright and Beautiful and Belladonna. She has a PhD in Theology and lives in Oxford, UK.
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
In 1876, orphaned Maude is forced to leave London, and her adored brother, Frank, to live with a stranger. Everyone—especially Frank—tells her not to trust Miss Greenaway, the enigmatic owner of Orchard House, but Maude can’t help warming to her new guardian. Encouraged by Miss Greenaway, Maude finds herself discovering who she is for the first time, and learning to love her new home. But when Frank comes for an unexpected visit, the delicate balance of Maude’s life is thrown into disarray. Complicating matters more, Maude witnesses an adult world full of interactions she cannot quite understand. Her efforts to regain control result in a violent tragedy, the repercussions of which will haunt Orchard House for the rest of Maude’s life—and beyond.
With each psychologically gripping turn, Elizabeth Brooks masterfully explores the blurred lines between truth and manipulation, asking us who we can trust, how to tell guilt from forgiveness, and whether we can ever really separate true love from destruction.
The House in the Orchard
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ELIZABETH BROOKS is the author of The Orphan of Salt Winds and The Whispering House. She grew up in Chester, England, graduated from Cambridge University, and resides on the Isle of Man with her husband and two children.
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by E. J. KOH
ON SALE NOVEMBER 7, 2023
US $27.95 (CAN $36.95) • Hardcover
ISBN 978-1-959030-15-7 • CQ 24
I found a tool, an ink brush, a twig, or my stub finger and used it to draw a character on parchment, dirt, or air. When one line touched another, my heart reached my fingertips to impart meaning. On a tree, I carved ‘tree’; in the river, I spelled in pebbles ‘river’; on my mother’s dress, I inked ‘dress.’ At some point, my mother set me down and didn’t pick me up again. On my mother’s grave, I wrote ‘grave.’
What does the next generation carry with them from the past, and what do they hope to find in an uncertain future?
At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be married. The couple soon moves to San Jose, California, with an infant and Sungho’s overbearing mother-in-law. Adrift in a new country, Insuk grieves the loss of her past and her divided homeland, finding herself drawn into an illicit relationship that sets into motion a dramatic saga and echoes for generations to come.
From the Gwangju Massacre to the 1988 Olympics, flashbacks to Korean repatriation after Japanese surrender, and the Sewol Ferry accident, E. J. Koh’s exquisitely drawn portraits and symphonic testimony from guards, prisoners, perpetrators, and liberators spans continents and four generations of two Korean families forever changed by fateful past decisions made in love and war. Extraordinarily beautiful and deeply moving, The Liberators is an elegantly wrought family saga of memory, trauma, and empathy, and a stunning testament to the consequences and fortunes of inheritance.
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"Koh’s book is a tremendous gift. . . . A wonder."
The San Francisco Chronicle
"A moving portrait of abandonment, forgiveness, and the strength of maternal love." TIME
"Poignant. . . . Koh writes beautifully of the sacrifices made for love and of the intergenerational tensions between a mother and daughter." —Oprah Daily
" A lyrical and profound personal excavation."
—BuzzFeed, Most Anticipated Book of the Year
E. J. KOH is the author of The Magical Language of Others, a Washington State Book Award Winner, Pacific Northwest Book Award Winner, and Association of Asian American Studies Book Award Winner. Koh is also the author of the poetry collection A Lesser Love. Koh’s work has appeared in AGNI, The Atlantic, Poetry, Slate, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and the Washington State Book Award in Biography/Memoir
Named One of the Best Books by Asian American Writers by Oprah Daily
Longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award
“Entrancing. . . . Chatagnier writes with a real compassion and sensitivity—this is a love story at its heart, one that’s both beautiful and unforgettable.”
—NPR BOOKS
“A novel of twin obsessions. . . . romantically attracted to the discovery of a new mathematical system for understanding intimacy and communication.”
In December 1960, Crystal Singer, her boyfriend Rick, and three MIT grad students take a road trip to Arizona to paint a message in the desert. Mars has been silent for thirty years, since the last time Earth solved one of the mathematical proofs the Martian civilization carved onto its surface. The latest proof, which seems to assert contradictory truths about distance, has resisted human understanding for decades. Crystal thinks she’s solved it, and Rick is intent on putting her answer to the test—if he can keep her from cracking under the pressure on the way. But Crystal’s disappearance after the experiment will set him on a different path than he expected, forever changing the distance between them.
Filled with mystery and wonder, Ethan Chatagnier’s Singer Distance is a debut novel about loneliness, exploration, and love—about how far we’ll go to communicate with a distant civilization, and the great lengths we’ll travel to connect here on Earth.
ETHAN CHATAGNIER ’s stories have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, and New England Review, and been listed as notable in The Best American Short Stories. A Pushcart Prize winner, he is the author of the story collection Warnings from the Future and lives in Fresno, California, with his family.
ON SALE DECEMBER 5, 2023
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An NPR, The Millions, and PopSugar Best Book of 2022
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