The transition from youth to adulthood is never a smooth ride. Pour an unstable home life, an abusive stepfather, a copious consumption of drugs and alcohol, and a world where everything seems to be turning upside down into the already frothing and volatile mixture of adolescent hormones and newly-budding sexuality---and you have FUTUREPROOF. "Really good shit." ~James Frey (A Million Little Pieces) *WARNING: This book contains mature sexual themes, drug use and strong language. Not for the fain...
A candid, rollicking literary travelogue from a pioneering New Yorker writer, an intrepid heroine who documented China in the years before World War II. Deemed scandalous at the time of its publication in 1944, Emily Hahn's now classic memoir of her years in China remains remarkable for her insights into a tumultuous period and her frankness about her personal exploits. A proud feminist and fearless traveler, she set out for China in 1935 and stayed through the early years of the Second Sino-J...
Pass on, No Pass Back
Darrell Lum's signature pidgin narratives dominate this nine-story collection, which also includes standard English stories and comic strip illustrations. Endearing and insightful, Lum's characters tell stories of initiation, family, wonder, and community.
In a forgotten nook of Cambridge a little shop stands where thousands of sheets of beautiful paper and hundreds of exquisite pens wait for the next person who, with Clara Cohen's help, will express the love, despair and desire they feel to correspondents alive, estranged or dead. Clara knows better than most the power a letter can have to turn a person's life around, so when she discovers a cache of wartime love letters, she follows them on the start of on a profound journey of her own.
Ready For The World - Driver's Education (Ready for the World, #1)
by Charmeljun Gallardo
New adventures in posthuman sci-fi from the author of I'm Waiting for You Longlisted for National Book Award in Translated Literature, 2021 Straddling science fiction, fantasy and myth, the writings of award-winning author Bo-Young Kim have garnered a cult following in South Korea, where she is widely acknowledged as a pioneer and inspiration. On the Origin of Species makes available for the first time in English some of Kim’s most acclaimed stories, as well as an essay on science fiction. Her...
From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations Keru and Nate first meet in college, brought together by a joke at a Halloween party (would a “great white” costume mean dressing like a shark or a privileged Ivy League student?) and marrying a few years later. Misfits in their own families, they find in each other a feeling of home. Keru is the only child of strict, well-educated Chinese immigrant par...
NAMED A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF 2024 "Adventurous. . .gritty and refreshingly girl-centric. . . lingers in the imagination." –The New York Times “Ko…draws characters with such deftness that they feel wholly alive." –The Washington Post "It belongs to an American literary tradition that includes Dana Spiotta, George Saunders, and their patron saint, Don DeLillo." –The Atlantic The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the v...
The Sound of the Mountain (Vintage International)
by Yasunari Kawabata
Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive daughter-in-law - are dissolving, and Shingo is caught between love and destruction. Lyrical and precise, The Sound of the Mountain explores in immaculately crafted prose the changing roles of love and the truth we face in ageing.
En la Lista de Lecturas de Barack Obama para el Verano de 2022 2.500.000 DE LECTORES VOLVERÁN A EMOCIONARSE NÚMERO UNO EN VENTAS EN THE NEW YORK TIMES Tras Tan poca vida —«un fenómeno digno de estudio» (La Razón), Mejor Libro del Año según más de 15 medios—, la nueva novela de una autora «con una capacidad deslumbrante para atrapar desde las tripas en una lectura febril» (El Mundo) UNO DE LOS LIBROS MÁS ESPERADOS DEL AÑO SEGÚN THE GUARDIAN, THE TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE TELEGRAPH, THE DA...
After a disastrous visit to her "home" orphanage in China, eighteen-year-old Ari Kong descends into a self-destructive spiral that forces all of the Kong women to come face to face with the truths of their lives.
Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long, sun-less days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer. Korea’s brightest literary star sets this complex and nuanced coming-of-age story against the backdrop of Korea’s industrial sweatshops of the 1970’s and takes on the e...