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THE GAME WE PLAY
Stories by Susan Hope Lanier
“ The Game We Play is a triumph. An outstanding debut that should reaffirm our shared belief in the absolute necessity and imaginative possibility of the short story.” — Joe Meno, author of The Great Perhaps and Hairstyles of the Damned
The ten riveting, emotionally complex stories in The Game We Play examine the decisions we make when our chocies are few and courage is costly. Topics include a young couple facing disease and commitment with the same sharp fear, a teenager stealing from his girlfriend's mother's purse to help pay for her abortion, and a father making a split-second decision that puts his child's life at risk.
THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD
A novel by Bill Hillmann
“A raucous but soulful account of growing up on the mean streets of Chicago, and the choices kids are forced to make on a daily basis. This cool, incendiary rites of passage novel is the real deal.” — Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting
The Old Neighborhood is the story of teenager Joe Walsh, the youngest in a large, mixed-race family living in Chicago. After Joe witnesses his older brother commit a gangland murder, his friends and family drag him down into a pit of violence that reaches a bloody impasse when his elder sister begins dating a rival gang member. The Old Neighborhood is both a brutal tale of growing up tough in a mean city, and a beautiful harkening to the heartbreak of youth.
DOES NOT LOVE
A novel by James Tadd Adcox
“...Adcox is a writer who knows how to make the reader believe the impossible, in his capable hands, is always possible, and the ordinary, in his elegant words, is truly extraordinary.” — Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and An Untamed State
Set in an archly comedic alternate reality version of Indianapolis that is completely overrun by Big Pharma, James Tadd Adcox’s debut novel chronicles Robert and Viola’s attempts to overcome loss through the miracles of modern pharmaceuticals. Viola falls out of love following her body’s third “spontaneous abortion,” while her husband Robert becomes enmeshed in an elaborate conspiracy designed to look like a drug study.
LET GO AND GO ON AND ON
A novel by Tim Kinsella
“I give Kinsella a five thousand star review for launching me deep into an alternate universe somewhere between fiction of the most intimate and biography of the most compelling. It’s like...a pitch-perfect fine flowing bellow, the sound of celestial molasses.” — Devendra Banhart
Let Go and Go On and On is the story of obscure actress Laurie Bird. Told in a second-person narrative, blurring what little is known of her actual biography with her roles as a drifter in Two Lane Blacktop, a champion's wife in Cockfighter, and an aging rock star's Hollywood girlfriend in Annie Hall, the story unravels in Bird's suicide at the age of 26. Let Go and Go On and On explores our endless fascination with the Hollywood machine and the weirdness that is celebrity culture.