By the Booker-shortlisted author ofDucks, Newburyport, a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love.Reclusive Eloïse lives with her cats and her cello in an English country cottage, privately building a case against men, women, the Queen, Nazi list-makers, fluorescent lighting, her ex-flatmate Howard, nuclear bombs, and toilet-roll-holder manufacturers. She has a real thing about giant pumpkin growers too....

An Independent Best Book of 2021“[Ellmann] delivers these diatribes with her signature wit and humor ... Each essay is accompanied by an illustration by artist Diana Hope, which complements the colorful nature of this collection. Fans of Ellmann will likely delight in Things Are Against Us.”—Chicago Review of BooksThe author of the Goldsmiths Prize-winning and Booker-shortlisted blockbuster Ducks, Newburyport

A whirlwind Manhattan romance like you've never read before from the Booker Prize nominated author of Ducks, Newburyport.It's Christmas Eve in Manhattan. An eminent plastic surgeon slips on the ice, lands on his butt, and sprains his ankle. So far, so good. A woman such as he's never known yanks him to his feet and conjures the miracle of a taxi.Harrison recuperates with Franz Schubert, Bette Davis, and a foundling cat. Then it's back to rhinoplast...

A profoundly ambitious, deeply American book about what it’s like to be alive in the 21st century, named by Publishers Weekly a Big Book of Winter Institute 14Set in Newcomerstown, Ohio, in 2017, the book primarily documents the inner monologue of a middle-aged mother, whose thoughts range from recipe tips and the contents of her freezer, to her son’s science projects on industrial pollution and the pressures faced by her mixed-race teenage daughter, to intrusive ones implanted by ...