Catherine Simone Gray signs PROUD FLESH.

A searing portrait of a mother’s body—a resurrection and reclamation of pleasure after abuse, a study of intergenerational trauma, and a love letter to the bodies of women: as alive and unbound as the teeming Mississippi wilds that bear witness. Four months postpartum with her second child, Catherine Simone Gray is back at her doctor’s office, surveying a childbirth wound...

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Callan Wink signs BEARTOOTH.

Two brothers in dire straits, living on the edge of Yellowstone, agree to a desperate act of survival in this taut, propulsive novel reminiscent of the works of Peter Heller and Donald Ray Pollock. In an aging, timber house hand-built into the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains, two brothers are struggling to keep up with their debts. They live off the grid, on the fringe of Yellowstone, surviving off the wild after the death of their father. Thad, the elder, is more capable of engaging..

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Tony Jones signs THE GOD OF WILD PLACES.

Millions of Americans, disillusioned with organized religion, yearn for meaning and transcendence in their lives, and many of them are finding that in nature. When pastor and theologian Tony Jones, Ph.D., had his crisis of faith, brought on by personal trauma and broken relationships, he sought solace in the outdoors - paddling a canoe, hunting with his dog, butchering deer...

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Beth Kander signs I MADE IT OUT OF CLAY.

A darkly hilarious novel about a Jewish woman in Chicago who creates a golem in a moment of desperation and unearths the greatest fear she’s ever faced, for fans of Ashley Poston and Shelby Van Pelt. Nothing’s going well for Eve: she’s single and about to turn 40, the ad agency where she works is flailing, several creepy incidents have her on edge, her dad died last year and her family still won’t talk about their grief… and, of course, the whole world’s a dumpster fire....

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Cathy Schieffelin signs THE CALL.

Nate, a journalist, awakens to a horrifying discovery in the remote Comoros Islands as the call to prayer echoes around him. Summoned to assist with the crisis, Juliette faces battles on both professional and personal fronts. As their relationship blossoms amidst the chaos, Nate and Juliette confront not only the threat of an unknown virus but also the shadows of their own pasts...

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Andy Corren signs DIRTBAG QUEEN.

“Because she was my mother, the death of zaftig good-time gal Renay Corren is newsworthy to me, and I treat it with the same respect and reverence she had for, well, nothing. A more disrespectful, trash talking woman was not to be found.” So began Andy Corren's unforgettable obituary for his mother, Renay Mandel Corren, a tribute that went on to touch the hearts of millions around the globe. In his brief telling of the life and legend that was Renay, a “loud, filthy‑minded (and filthy‑mouthed) Jewish lady redneck...

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Omo Moses signs THE WHITE PERIL.

In The White Peril, Omo Moses deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather's sermons and the writings of his father, the civil rights activist Bob Moses. The result is a powerful chorus of voices that spans 3 generations of an African American family, all shining a light on the Black experience, all calling fiercely for racial justice...

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Adam Ross signs PLAYWORLD.

Griffin Hurt is in over his head. Between his role as Peter Proton on the hit TV show The Nuclear Family and the pressure of high school at New York's elite Boyd Prep—along with the increasingly compromising demands of his wrestling coach—he's teetering on the edge of collapse. Then comes Naomi Shah, twenty-two years Griffin’s senior. Unwilling to lay his burdens on his shrink—whom he shares with his father, mother, and younger brother...

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Chris Whitaker signs ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK.

1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another....

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