One of the American Library Association's Top 10 Most Banned Books for the past two years, this award-winning coming-of-age novel takes readers into the heart and humor of a young man determined to achieve the ever-changing American dream. He just happens to find himself along the way.“Mike Muñoz Is a Holden Caulfield for a New Millennium.” --The New York Times Book ReviewFor Mike Muñoz, life has been a whole lot o...

Weakness has always been a concern for William Miller. Growing up vegetarian in a family of bodybuilders will do that to a person. But William is further weakened by the death of his mother, the arrival of a new stepmother, and his irrepressible crush on his new stepsister, Lulu. As Lulu faces down her own challenges, William watches his life shift into tumult and despair. Once Lulu departs for college, Will goes into the world to find himself— discovering Western philosophy, a cruel datin...

**Winner of the Housatonic Book AwardA New York Times Editors' Choice!One of Booklist’s “Top 10 Historical Fiction Novels of 2022”One of the Los Angeles Times's “10 Books to Add to Your Reading List”****One of Book Culture's Most Anticipated Reads“A bighearted, widescreen American tale.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Masterpiece . . . The quintessential great American novel.”—Booklist (starred re...

With her husband Bernard two years in the grave, seventy-nine year old Harriet Chance sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise only to discover through a series of revelations that she's been living the past sixty years of her life under entirely false pretenses. There, amid the buffets and lounge singers, between the imagined appearance of her late husband and the very real arrival of her estranged daughter midway through the cruise, Harriet is forced to take a long look back, confron...

With her husband, Bernard, two years in the grave, seventy-nine-year-old Harriet Chance sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise only to discover through a series of revelations that she’s been living the past sixty years of her life under entirely false pretenses. There, amid the buffets and lounge singers, between the imagined appearance of her late husband and the very real arrival of her estranged daughter, Harriet is forced to take a long look back, confronting the truth about piv...

For Ben Benjamin, all has been lost—his wife, his family, his home, his livelihood. Hoping to find a new direction, he has enrolled in a night class called the Fundamentals of Caregiving. There he learns the basics of the art of inserting catheters while avoiding liability, and he is instructed about professionalism and how to keep an emotional distance between client and provider.But when Ben is assigned his first client—a tyrannical nineteen-year-old boy named Trevor who is in th...

**A “wickedly funny and sublimely moving” debut from the New York Times–bestselling author of This is Your Life, Harriet Chance! (Caroline Leavitt, author of Cruel Beautiful World)A quirky coming-of-age novel about a gawky vegetarian in an off-the-wall bodybuilding family, who develops an inconvenient obsession with his new stepsister . . .**Weakness has always been a concern for William Miller: growing up vegetarian in a family of competitive bod...

**A Seattle Times BestsellerOne of The Washington Post’s 10 Noteworthy Books for JanuaryOne of The Los Angeles Times’ 10 Books to Add to Your Reading List in JanuaryOne of The Seattle Times’ 24 Books to Look Out for in 2025One of Kirkus' Best 20 Books to Read in JanuaryThe extraordinary new novel by Jonathan Evison, about a married couple in their golden years, from when they met across big ups, deep downs, a...

For Mike Muñoz, a young Chicano living in Washington State, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work—and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew—he knows that he's got to be the one to shake things up if he's ever going to change his life. But how?In this funny, angry, touching, and ultimately deeply inspiring novel, bestselling author Jonathan Evison takes the reader i...

**A Seattle Times BestsellerOne of The Washington Post’s 10 Noteworthy Books for JanuaryOne of The Los Angeles Times’ 10 Books to Add to Your Reading List in JanuaryOne of The Seattle Times’ 24 Books to Look Out for in 2025One of Kirkus' Best 20 Books to Read in JanuaryThe extraordinary new novel by Jonathan Evison, about a married couple in their golden years, from when they met across big ups, deep downs, a...

From the rugged mudflats of the Northwestern frontier to a rusting strip mall, West of Here is a conversation between two epochs. In his eagerly awaited second novel, Jonathan Evison tells the stories of the people who first inhabited the mythical town of Port Bonita in Washington State from 1887-1891. Moving ahead more than a century to 2005-06, he introduces those who live there now and must deal with the damage done by their predecessors.The characters are drawn with co...

“A beautifully rendered and cinematic portrait of a place and its evolution through time . . . A story of survival and the love and devotion between parent and child.”—Jill McCorkle, author of HieroglyphicsDave Cartwright used to be good at a lot of things: good with his hands, good at solving problems, good at staying calm in a crisis. But on the heels of his third tour in Iraq, the fabric of Dave’s life has begun to unravel. Gripp...