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A Man of Two Faces

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD: The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide…

Running in Place

by Nicholas Delbanco

“Delbanco writes beautifully. . . . It’s hard to imagine a better eye than Delbanco’s through which to see another part of the world.” –Jody E. Carpenter, San Francisco Chronicle…

Quietly in Their Sleep

by Donna Leon

“[Leon] offers a fresh, exhilarating take on that ambiguous city, with its labyrinthine alleyways and politics, its glamour, its grottiness. . . . An intelligent, satisfying crime novel.” —Sunday Times…

Triptych and Iphigenia

by Edna O'Brien

…uses words the way a juggler employs shiny balls, tossing them up, letting them spin, glitter, and reflect off one another in new and startling patterns.” –San Francisco Culture Vulture…

Sexing the Cherry

by Jeanette Winterson

…dangerous jewel . . . a mixture of The Arabian Nights touched by the philosophical form of Milan Kundera and told with the grace of Italo Calvino.” —San Francisco Chronicle…

Story of My Life

by Jay McInerney

…. . . Underneath Alison’s hip, partygirl exterior . . . is McInerney’s disturbing depiction of a young woman caught in the traumatic reality of her times.” —San Francisco Chronicle…

Lord of the Barnyard

by Tristan Egolf

…an arctic blast of fresh air and a far cry from the formulaic writing so prevelant in much contemporary fiction . . . [a] memorable, ambitious debut.” –San Francisco Chronicle…

Magnum

by Russell Miller

…the excitement of being a photojournalist at a time when world events were unfolding at a furious pace . . . a cracking good story.” –Sarah Coleman, San Francisco Chronicle…

Rushes

by John Rechy

“A major American novelist writing at the peak of his powers.” –Richard Hall, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review…

Grove at Home: November 8-14

…experience. Do yourself a fifteen-minute favor and watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rdSZ43aQVk   Francisco Goldman on what comes next Francisco Goldman is the fiercely admired author of books including Say Her Name…