Stories about the pursuit of all kinds of gratification—from cheap and immoral to expensive and emotionally satisfying.Finalist, The Flannery O'Connor PrizeIn a wide range of forms and tones, the fifteen stories in Andy Mozina's new collection, Quality Snacks, center on high-stakes performances by characters trying to gratify both deep and superficial needs, often with unexpected consequences. Driven by strange ambitions, bungled love, and a taste ...

Intriguing, quirky, and deeply felt stories from writer Andy Mozina, collected in his first full-length fiction release.Winner, Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers AwardIn The Women Were Leaving the Men, Andy Mozina draws readers into the everyday lives of characters who are instantly relatable but intriguingly flawed. Knocked beyond the brink by departed family members, curious obsessions, and unruly physical attributes, Mozina's characters climb ...

Mike Kovacs is an economics professor who's trying to get over a bitter divorce. He’s barely on speaking terms with his only child. And he’s just killed two bicyclists in an inebriated hit-and-run at a deserted Michigan beach. (In his defense, he hadn’t meant to get that drunk. And what’s the use of getting caught and going to jail if it means you can no longer make positive contributions to society? Sunk costs, and all.)Claire Boland’s daughter is one of ...

By turns hilarious and bittersweet, Andy Mozina’s winning debut novel introduces a charming new hero for our times: a dysfunctional, divorced family man whose passion for life comes straight from the harp.Matthew Grzbc is a talented musician who plays the concert harp. He is a divorced dad who lives in Chicago, has a sexy girlfriend, and has a major, potentially life-changing audition with an orchestra on the horizon. At least that’s how he appears on paper. But ta...

Matthew Grzbc is just your average newly divorced dad. He shares custody of his six-year-old daughter. He may still be in love with his ex-wife. He believes he probably doesn’t deserve his sexy, successful, driven girlfriend. And he plays the harp—that’s his job.When his father dies unexpectedly (he has a heart attack while listening to a meditation CD), Matt is forced to confront his own mortality and the fleeting nature of life—he questions everything, from his romantic attachmen...

Matthew Grzbc is just your average newly divorced dad. He shares custody of his six-year-old daughter. He may still be in love with his ex-wife. He believes he probably doesn’t deserve his sexy, successful, driven girlfriend. And he plays the harp—that’s his job.When his father dies unexpectedly (he has a heart attack while listening to a meditation CD), Matt is forced to confront his own mortality and the fleeting nature of life—he questions everything, from his romantic attachmen...

What if you were on the cusp of marrying the guy of your dreams and reaching that career goal you set for yourself, only for all of it to be taken away in one fell swoop?What if you then had to start from the very beginning, right down to moving out of the city and back to the suburbs to live with your parents?What if this all happened a month before you turned 30?This is the story of Jill Stevens, who after being forced to move back home, finds a list she made in high...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir from the author of The Middle Place about mothers and daughters—a bond that can be nourishing, exasperating, and occasionally divine.When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as “Your father’s the glitter but I’m the glue.” This meant nothing to Kelly, who left childhood sure that her mom—with her inviolable commandments and proud stoicism—would be nothing more than...

Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. In six stories and a novella, Saunders hatches an unforgettable cast of characters, each struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. With a new introduction by Joshua Ferris and a new author’s note by Saunders himself, this edition is essential reading for those seeking to disco...

A national bestseller from the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins, All Grown Up isa wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection.Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she’s a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it’s what she leaves unsaid—she’s alone, a drinker, a former artist, a shriek...

A "clever, fast-paced" mystery from the New York Times –bestselling author of Bones and Roses is a "killer tale of a headline-making homicide" (Lisa Unger, New York Times– bestselling author of Ink and Bone ).With a Hollywood movie about to start filming in the California seaside town of Cyp...

A haunting psychological thriller, this suspenseful novel explores the terrifying boundary between mental illness and true evil in a small Pennsylvania town burdened by buried secrets.Dr. Sheridan Doyle is a polished, media-savvy forensic psychologist—the expert the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office turns to when criminal minds defy easy explanation. But beneath the Armani suits and professional calm lies Danny Doyle, the frightened boy he once was, shaped by...