Fiction - City Life

A brutal murder exposes secret real estate deals, a corrupt police force, and the dark heart of a city simmering with unrest.When two girls are found murdered in a rundown Toronto highrise, Jamieson Abel and his partner are first on the scene. Abel is...

Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State.Though nothing is as simple as it might appear to be, we could describe this as a...

"[Rechy's] tone rings absolutely true, is absolutely his own. . . . He tells the truth, and tells it with such passion that we are forced to share in the life he conveys. . . . This is a most humbling and liberating achievement."--James...

A thrilling, inventive, playful, and unorthodox detective and caper novel, the latest work by a French master. "Fans of Jean-Patrick Manchette's deadpan irony will appreciate Command Performance, Echenoz's vibrant, playful homage to the hard-boiled genre, which plays like The Big Lebowski on the Seine."...

The English-language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, Convenience Store Woman is a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan through the eyes of a single woman who fits in to the rigidity of its work culture...

Netflix's Inventing Anna and Hulu's The Dropout meets Catch Me If You Can in this captivating novel about an ambitious young woman who gets trapped in a charismatic con artist's scam.A Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Parade, New York Post, Shondaland,...

From the Oscar-nominated filmmaker comes a complex and sweeping historical novel about Henry Ford -- the Elon Musk of his day -- and his attempt to rule not only an automotive empire but the rambunctious city of Detroit. It is an epic tale ranging...

Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy of romance. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of 2022 at Glamour, W, Nylon, Fortune, Literary...

Stylish, smart, and big-hearted, Cyan Magenta Yellow Black lovingly summons the Minneapolis Saint Paul of December of 1993, just before the internet changed everything. It's a place where friendships form in group therapy sessions and blossom in coffee shops-and where a handful of people...

Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a stray, perhaps rabies-infected cat, a series of small and...

A dark yet compassionate comedy of art aspirations and friendships come to naught. First published in 2003, Gary Indiana's turn-of-the-millennium novel traces the lives of a loosely connected group of New York artists and the dissolution of their scene. During the summer of 2001,...

"...gem of a novel..." -Lorna Landvik, Last Circle of Love"...beautifully written story..." -Robert Alexander, The Kitchen Boy"... deft touch of a master storyteller..." -Greg Fields, Through the Waters and the Wild"An entertaining debut." -Sarah Stonich, VacationlandHenry Franken has a problem with money-he has too...

Una novela para leer a escondidas en la oficina. La presentadora del pódcast Arsénico Caviar debuta con una afilada novela sobre una mujer harta del trabajo. El descontento es la historia de Marisa, una mujer en sus treinta que vive anestesiada mediante ansiolíticos y...

Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Oceans and the Stars, Winter's Tale, and A Soldier of the Great War, returns with an unforgettable tale of love, loss, and remembrance set in Brooklyn.Told in an exceptional literary voice, mixing comedy...

In this witty and romantic debut novel, Jane Austen's Emma meets the misadventures of Manhattan's modern dating scene as two lifelong friends discover that, in the search for love, you sometimes don't have to look any further than your own backyard--perfect for fans of...

"This is such a love story to cities & people & heartbreaks, death & loss. It's not at all corny, it's smart. But I just finished it & it made me cry." -- Eileen Myles "Signals the arrival of a novelist sure to resonate...

"This is such a love story to cities & people & heartbreaks, death & loss. It's not at all corny, it's smart. But I just finished it & it made me cry." -- Eileen Myles "Signals the arrival of a novelist sure to resonate...

In this debut crime-horror story collection, David Simmons drags you into a phantasmagoric Baltimore where the dead refuse to stay dead and the living claw for meaning.Hallucinatory and darkly comic love stories are set against the gritty backdrop of the city, where guns and...

WINNER OF CANADA READS 2016WINNER OF THE 2015 GILLER PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2015 WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZEA special edition celebrating the tenth anniversary of André Alexis's modern masterpiece, with a foreword by Eileen Myles and an afterword by André Alexis.-- I wonder, said Hermes,...

Unsettling, haunting short stories in the vein of Yoko Ogawa and Brian Evenson.Author: Ha Seong-NanPublisher: Open LetterPublished: 04/23/2019Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80dISBN: 9781940953960Review Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2019Booklist 03/15/2019 pg. 42Shelf Awareness 05/03/2019About the AuthorHa Seong-Nan was born in Seoul...