Tin House Summer 2025 Catalog

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FOREIGN FRUIT

HARDLY CREATURES

MOVE LIKE WATER

MAY

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MAY

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THERE ARE REASONS FOR THIS

WANTING

MAKE YOUR WAY HOME

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JUNE

JULY

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WE SHOULD ALL BE BIRDS

ARCHIPELAGO

CONTACT AND DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION

AUGUST

AUGUST

NONFICTION

Foreign Fruit

“A sharp-sweet memoir of change, identity and hybridity. I loved it.”

—Katherine May

A Personal History of the Orange

KATIE GOH

What begins as a curiosity into the

origins of the orange soon becomes a far-reaching odyssey of citrus for Katie Goh. Goh follows the complicated history of the orange from east-to-west and west-to-east, from a luxury item of European kings and Chinese emperors, to a modest fruit people take for granted. This investigation parallels Goh’s powerful search into her own heritage. Growing up queer in a Chinese-Malaysian-Irish household in the north of Ireland, Goh felt herself at odds with the culture and politics around her. As a teenager, Goh visits her ancestral home in Longyan, China, with her family to better understand her roots, but doesn’t find the easy, digestible answers she hoped for.

In her mid-twenties, when her grandmother falls ill, she ventures again to the land of her ancestors, this time to Malaysia, where more questions of self and belonging are raised. In her travels and reflections, she navigates histories that she wants to understand, but has never truly felt a part of. Like the story of the orange, Goh finds that simple and extractable explanations—even about a seemingly simple fruit—are impossible. The story that unfolds is Goh’s incredible endeavor to flesh out these contradictions, to unpeel the layers of personhood; a reflection on identity through the cipher of the orange. Along the way, the orange becomes so much more than just a fruit—it emerges as a symbol, a metaphor, and a guide. Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange is a searching, wide-ranging, seamless weaving of storytelling with research and a meditative, deeply moving encounter with the orange and the self.

ON SALE MAY 6, 2025 US $27.99 • Hardcover ISBN 978-1-963108-23-1 • 5 ½" x 8 ½" • 256 pages

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Alice Meikle

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KATIE GOH is a writer, editor, and author from the north of Ireland, currently living in Edinburgh.

POETRY

An imaginative and unforgettable debut poetry collection about the joys and complexities of the disability community from 2024 Ruth Lilly Fellow Rob Macaisa Colgate

Hardly Creatures ROB MACAISA COLGATE

Brilliant and innovative, Rob Macaisa

Colgate’s debut poetry collection, Hardly Creatures, takes the form—visually and metaphorically—of an accessible art museum. Through nine sections that act as gallery rooms, the book shepherds the reader through the radiance and mess of the disability community.

At the heart of the collection is an exploration and recognition of access intimacy. Marked with universal access symbols to guide the way, poems mimic sensory rooms, tactile replicas, benches for resting, and more; “the body of a poem” itself is reimagined through formal experimentation, as abecedarians are scrambled out of order and sestinas are pressurized into new sequences. These poems also play with pop culture allusions, social media posts, and the infinite possibilities within queer love and deep friendships.

With lyrical clarity and attention to language, Hardly Creatures reaches out and offers inventive, heartfelt insights for all readers, and celebrates the disability community through the lens of a visionary new voice in poetry.

ON SALE MAY 20, 2025 US $16.99 (Can. $22.99) • Trade Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-963108-24-8 • 6” x 9” • 128 pages

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ROB MACAISA COLGATE is a disabled, bakla, Filipino American poet from Evanston, Illinois. He received an MFA in poetry and critical disability studies from UT Austin. Poems from this collection appear in American Poetry Review, The Sewanee Review, Best New Poets, New England Review, The Margins, and elsewhere. A former Fulbright scholar, Rob currently serves as the managing poetry editor at Foglifter.

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Move Like Water

“A sensuous book, more felt than described, more described than explained, more painted than penned: part memoir, part journal and . . . part natural mystery tour.”

HANNAH STOWE

—Carl Safina,

My Story of the Sea

The New York Times Book Review A book to sweep you away from the

shore, into a wild world of water, whale, storm, and starlight—to experience what it’s like to sail for weeks at a time with life set to a new rhythm. 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 a 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 illustrations with stories of six keystone marine creatures—the fire crow, sperm whale, wandering 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: My Story of the Sea 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.

ON SALE MAY 27, 2025 US $17.99 (Can. $23.99) • Paperback ISBN 978-1-963108-25-5 • 5” x 7 ¾” • 288 pages

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HANNAH STOWE lives in Dresden, Germany, writing, painting, and sailing her own boat named Larry.

FICTION “Nini Berndt wonderfully makes the strange familiar and the familiar strange. There Are Reasons for This immerses you in the unsettling but tender lives of its characters, whose yearning for connection powerfully mirrors our own. This is a truly memorable novel.”

There Are Reasons for This NINI BERNDT

—Claire Messud Lucy’s brother, Mikey, is dead. Two

years ago, when he left their small Eastern Colorado town and moved west to Denver, he’d intended to bring Lucy along. But Lucy has only just arrived, and too late. She arrives in search of Helen, a woman Mikey loved. But when Lucy moves in across the hall, she finds nothing is as she expected: the city is crumbling; the weather is tempestuous; a predator is on the loose; the old woman in the attic needs company; desire is being compressed into pills and distributed like candy; and, most distressing of all, she finds herself becoming obsessed with Helen, who is nothing like she expected—and who has no idea who Lucy really is.

As Helen’s and Lucy’s lives become more entwined, Lucy begins to realize the real reasons she came to Denver are deeper and stranger than a simple desire to understand what happened to her brother.

As a storm builds and the city falls apart, Lucy finds herself drawn further to Helen, and farther from her brother, questioning what makes a family and if love can ever really be found.

There Are Reasons for This is a modern love song about the fallibility of love—in all its iterations— about the denial and tethering of desire, about the family we are given and the one we find for ourselves, and to what comes next, whatever that may be.

ON SALE JUNE 3, 2025 US $17.99 (Can. $23.99) • Trade Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-963108-26-2 • 5 ½” x 8 ½” • 240 pages

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NINI BERNDT is a graduate

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of the MFA program in Fiction at the University of Florida. She teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, where she lives with her wife and son.

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FICTION

Wanting CLAIRE JIA

“A dazzling portrait of both modern China and the unrelenting ambitions of the human heart.”

—Belinda Huijuan Tang Ye Lian is thriving in Beijing. She

has a well-paid job, a nice boyfriend, and plans to marry and move into a luxury high-rise apartment.

She’s wanting for nothing—until her childhood best friend, Luo Wenyu, comes whirling back into her life after a decade in California with seemingly everything—a successful career as an influencer, a millionaire American fiancé, and a bespoke mansion in the Beijing suburbs—throwing Lian’s own reliable choices into high relief.

As the two women rekindle their friendship, Wenyu reveals a shocking secret about a past love that pushes Lian to question her own relationship.

A few neighborhoods away, aging architect Song Chen is forced to confront his own past and the dissolution of his marriage as he’s tasked with building Wenyu’s dream home. And when the dark side of Wenyu’s enviable life emerges and threatens everything Lian and Wenyu have built for themselves, they must make a choice between the stable known and the frightening unknown that may have devastating and unexpected consequences.

In girlhood memories and karaoke afternoons in Xidan Square, in aspirational YouTube channels and billboard ads, in private hotel rendezvous and secret WeChat messages, Claire Jia’s debut novel is a love letter to friendship; a powder keg of impossible, interwoven desires; a siren song that explores why, even as it destroys us, we always want more.

ON SALE JULY 1, 2025 US $18.99 (Can. $24.99) • Trade Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-963108-27-9 • 5 ½” x 8 ½” • 400 pages

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CLAIRE JIA is a writer and

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television writer based in Los Angeles.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times Modern Love column, The Rumpus, Reductress, and more. She cowrote the 2024 Peabody Award-winning video game We Are OFK.

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Joe Abriatis

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FICTION A debut collection of stories set across the American South, featuring characters who struggle to find love and belonging in the wake of painful histories. How can you love where you come from, even when home doesn’t love you back?

Make Your Way Home CARRIE R. MOORE

In eleven stories that span Florida

marshes, North Carolina mountains, and Southern metropolitan cities, Make Your Way Home follows Black men and women who grapple with the homes that have eluded them. A preteen pregnant alongside her mother refuses to let convention dictate who she names as the father of her child. Centuries after slavery separated his ancestors, a native Texan tries to win over the love of his life, despite the grip of a family curse. A young deaconess, who falls for a new church member, wonders what it means when God stops speaking to her. And at the very end of the South as we know it, two sisters seek to escape North to freedom, to promises of a more stable climate.

Artfully and precisely drawn, and steeped in place and history as it explores themes of belonging, inheritance, and deep intimacy, Carrie R. Moore’s debut collection announces an extraordinary new talent in American fiction, inviting us all to examine how the past shapes our present—and how our present choices will echo for years to come.

ON SALE JULY 15, 2025 US $17.99 (Can. $23.99) • Trade Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-963108-28-6 • 5 ½” x 8 ½” • 352 pages

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CARRIE R. MOORE ’s fiction has appeared in One Story, New England Review, The Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other publications. A recipient of the Keene Prize and the inaugural writer-inresidence at the Steinbeck Writers’ Retreat, she earned her MFA at the Michener Center for Writers. Born in Georgia, she currently resides in Texas with her husband.

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MEMOIR

We Should All Be Birds

A charming and moving debut memoir about how a man with a mystery illness saves a pigeon, and how the pigeon saves the man.

BRIAN BUCKBEE

On a s pri ng even i ng i n Mon tana ,

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Brian Buckbee encounters an injured baby pigeon.

Heartbroken after the loss of the love of his life and increasingly isolated by a mysterious illness that overtook him while trekking through Asia, Brian is unaware that this bird—who he names Two-Step— will change his life. Brian takes in Two-Step, and more injured birds, eventually transforming his home into a madcap bird rehabilitation and rescue center. As Brian and Two-Step grow closer, an unexpected kinship forms. But their paths won’t converge forever: as Two-Step heals and finds love, Brian’s condition worsens, and with his friend’s release back into the world looming closer, Brian must decide where this story leaves him.

We Should All Be Birds follows Brian, unable to read or write due to a never-ending headache, as he dictates the end of his old life—as an adventurer, an iconoclastic university instructor, and endurance athlete—through his relationship with a pigeon that comes to define his present. Limited to dictation, Brian teams up with Carol Ann Fitzgerald, an editor who channels the details of his personal history to the pages. Raw and perceptive, delirious and devastating, We Should All Be Birds is an unflinching exploration of chronic illness, grief, connection, and the spectacular beauty of the natural world—and the humble pigeon. The surprising, heartwarming relationship between man and bird provides insight into what it means to love, to suffer, and to “never forget, even for a second, how big it all is.”

ON SALE AUGUST 5, 2025 US $28.99 (Can. $38.99) • Hardcover ISBN 978-1-963108-29-3 • 5 ½” x 8 ½” • 288 pages

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BRIAN BUCKBEE lives in Missoula,

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Montana. He is co-founder of The 406 Writers’ Workshop. His stories have appeared in The Sun, The Georgia Review, The Mid-American Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and elsewhere.

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Marc Smirnoff

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CAROL ANN FITZGERALD is a former editor at The Sun and The Oxford American.

She lives in Chapel Hill.

FICTION

A stirring and impeccably balanced novel of self-discovery, Archipelago will appeal to fans of Katie Kitamura, Rachel Cusk, and Deborah Levy.

Archipelago NATALIE BAKOPOULOS

Natalie Bakopoulos’s Archipelago is a

striking, haunting novel that offers meditations on the slippery borders of nations, languages, middle age, and the self.

Along the way to a translation writing residency on the Dalmatian coast, Archipelago’s unnamed narrator has an unsettling, aggressive encounter with a man on a ferry, which sets off a series of strange events. At the residency, she reunites with Luka, an old friend who seems to have included a version of her in his novel. They strike up a romantic relationship as she continues her translation work.

The hazy summer stretches on until, after a sudden shift, she embarks upon an impulsive road trip back to Greece, crossing borders. Spare and lyrical, with subversions of the Odyssey and its singular Ithaca, Archipelago charts a wending journey back to the narrator’s family house—not simply back to a self and home, but beyond it.

ON SALE AUGUST 19, 2025 US $17.99 (Can. $23.99) • Trade Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-963108-30-9 • 5 ½” x 8 ½” • 224 pages

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NATALIE BAKOPOULOS is the author of Scorpionfish and The Green Shore. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Ninth Letter, Kenyon Review, Tin House, VQR, The Iowa Review, The New York Times, Granta, Glimmer Train, Mississippi Review, O. Henry Prize Stories, and other publications. Bakopoulos is an assistant professor at Wayne State University in Detroit. She’s on the faculty of Writing Workshops in Greece.

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