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ON THE WAY

STORIES BY CYN VARGAS

 

“In these fresh, sensual stories, Vargas bravely explores family, friendship and irreconcilable loss, and she will break your heart nicely.” —BONNIE JO CAMPBELL

 

Cyn Vargas's debut collection explores the whims and follies of the human heart. When an American woman disappears in Guatemala, her daughter refuses to accept she's gone; a divorced DMV employee falls in love during a driving lesson; a young woman shares a well-kept family secret with the one person who it might hurt the most; a bad haircut is the last straw in a crumbling marriage. In these stories, characters grasp at love and beg to belong—often at the expense of their own happiness.

 

CRAZY HORSE’S GIRLFRIEND

A NOVEL BY ERIKA T. WURTH

 

“ Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend is gritty and tough and sad beyond measure; but it also contains startling, heartfelt moments of hope and love.” —DONALD RAY POLLOCK

 

Margaritte is a sharp-tongued, drug-dealing, sixteen-year-old Native American floundering in a Colorado town crippled by poverty, unemployment, and drug abuse. She hates the burnout, futureless kids surrounding her and dreams that she and her unreliable new boyfriend can move far beyond the bright lights of Denver before the daily suffocation of teen pregnancy eats her alive. Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend thoroughly shakes up cultural preconceptions of what it means to be Native American today.

 

MEATY

ESSAYS BY SAMANTHA IRBY

 

“Raunchy, funny and vivid . . . Those faint of heart beware . . . strap in and get ready for a roller-coaster ride to remember.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS

 

Samantha Irby explodes onto the page with essays about laughing her way through a life of failed relationships, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn’s Disease, and much more. Written with the same scathing wit and poignant bluntness readers of her riotous blog, Bitches Gotta Eat, have come to expect, Meaty takes on subjects both high and low—from why she can’t be mad at Lena Dunham, to the anguish of growing up with a sick mother, to why she wants to write your mom’s Match.com profile.

 

ONCE I WAS COOL

ESSAYS BY MEGAN STIELSTRA

 

“Stielstra is a masterful essayist. From the first page to the last, she demonstrates a graceful understanding of the power of storytelling.” —ROXANE GAY

 

In these insightful, compassionate, gutsy, and heartbreaking personal essays, Stielstra explores the messy, maddening beauty of adulthood with wit, intelligence, and biting humor. The essays in Once I Was Cool tackle topics ranging from beating postpartum depression by stalking her neighbor, to a surprise run-in with an old lover while on ecstasy, to blowing her mortgage on a condo she bought because of Jane’s Addiction. Or, said another way, they tackle life in all of its quotidian richness.