The Impossibly
Funny, smart, and perfectly pitched, Laird Hunt's extraordinary debut follows the amusing but deadly debacles of its narrator, an anonymous secret operative embroiled in the dark underworld of transnational organized crime. When he botches an assignment for the clandestine organization that employs him, everyone in his life - including his new girlfriend - is revealed to be either true-blue or double operative. As he frugally doles out clues about his dangerous work, the reader inevitably becomes both confidante and fellow gumshoe.

The Complexities of Intimacy
The stories in The Complexities of Intimacy offer a surreal and darkly comedic exploration of that most complex of all institutions - the nuclear family. A breathtaking stylist, Mary Caponegro imbues her collection with startling details: a sister with a secret tail, a brother who invents a hammock from a harp, and precocious children who choose their own parents.

That Kind of Sleep
Stirring and verdant, the poetry within That Kind of Sleep invites readers behind the opaque curtain that has historically concealed the lives of modern and traditional Iranian women.

Maraca
An impressive and essential collection spanning the breadth of over 30 years from one of America's most exhilarating poets. In this critical collection featuring both Cruz's latest and beloved poems, tropical and urban vistas inform a body of work that has dazzled readers since a twenty-year-old Cruz exploded onto the national scene in the 1960s.

The Cotillion
To her mother's absolute delight, beautiful, young, high-stepping Yoruba of Harlem has been invited to participate in the cotillion that is thrown annually by African American high society in Queens. Caught between the bombastic indifference of her father, the excited determination of her social-climbing mother, and her prodigal boyfriend's militancy, Yoruba ultimately persuades her sister debutantes to challenge the aging society doyennes in one of the most sidesplitting scenes in American literature.

Club Revelation
In Club Revelation, three interfaith Jewish / Christian couples unwittingly rent the ground floor of their brownstone to a charming, young Southern evangelist. Serving up his own blend of Christian cuisine, he opens a restaurant in the space, hoping to convert the Jews of the Upper West Side. His scheme threatens to destroy the harmony of the building when one of his six landlords finds comfort - and much more - in the preacher's conversion-by-gastronomy methods.

Distance and Direction
Judith Kitchen's essays are lyrical and affecting meditations on place - those places to which we go back and the bittersweet ones to which we can never return. Pushcart-prize winning writer and editor, Kitchen writes crystalline prose about the human connection to both built and natural environments.