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Following her acclaimed debut,Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow, award-winning author Peg Alford Pursell explores and illuminates love and loss in 78 hybrid stories and fables.A Girl Goes into the...

Absolute AwayAuthor: Lance OlsenPublisher: Dzanc BooksPublication Date: Apr 16, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950539954ISBN-13: 9781950539956

In Selected Poems, Keith Taylor, acclaimed poet of the Upper Midwest and the author of eighteen celebrated collections, delivers a stunning medley of his most lasting work: poems that remain vivid in...

A girl with no name embarks on a three-way relationship with Matt, a satanist and a tattoo artist, and his girlfriend Frances, a new mom. The liason is caged by strict rules and rigid emotional...

April 1970: In newly independent Nigeria, a young man named Zanya works as a faithful translator and aide for the American missionaries who have set up post in his town of Rabata. When Zanya...

Montana, 1968: The small town of Paradise Valley is ripped open when popular rancher and notorious bachelor Tom Butcher is found murdered one morning, beaten to death by a baseball bat. Suspicion...

The people in these stories need Meg Pokrass. Their lives are tough but her imagination is the fire-lasso that can save them, save us. -Bob Hicok, author of Elegy Owed and Sex & Love A...

A near-future farmer battling environmental crises takes in a mysterious girl he finds on the roadside. A bus driver navigates through treacherous weather and memories of her tragic past as she races...

A hallucinatory exploration into the origins of humans and human language perfect for fans of Brian Evenson and Eimear McBride. Lucy, a young woman with an uncertain past, finds herself thrust into a...

Homesick: StoriesAuthor: Nino CipriPublisher: Dzanc BooksPublication Date: October 15, 2019Number of Pages: 216 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1945814950ISBN-13: 9781945814952

In The Event Of Contact: StoriesAuthor: Ethel RohanPublisher: Dzanc BooksPublication Date: May 18, 2021Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950539261ISBN-13:...

These stories are linked by humor, setting, themes and recurring characters -- cat lovers, murderers, gamblers, ghosts and fools -- but mostly by the movie stars, gods and goddesses who look down on...

My Red HeavenAuthor: Lance OlsenPublisher: Dzanc BooksPublication Date: January 21, 2020Number of Pages: 200 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950539032ISBN-13: 9781950539031

Astunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from LaurenGroff, Deesha Philyaw, K-Ming Chang, and thirteen other award-winning andbestselling authors Amiddle-aged Black woman...

Rabbit PunchesAuthor: Jason OckertPublisher: Dzanc BooksPublication Date: Nov 16, 2021Number of Pages: 182 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950539415ISBN-13: 9781950539413

For fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Jhumpa Lahiri, Ruined a Little When We Are Born delivers a stunning exploration of family and motherhood against the backdrop of Indian diaspora and culture. Tara...

Siege Of ComediansAuthor: Susan DaitchPublisher: Dzanc BooksPublication Date: 12-Oct-21Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950539334ISBN-13: 9781950539338

Skin ElegiesAuthor: Lance OlsenPublisher: Dzanc BooksPublication Date: Nov 09, 2021Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950539350ISBN-13: 9781950539352

From a celebrated master of the Southern Gothic comes a last collection of hard-hitting short fiction, his final posthumous work Beloved for his novels Twilight, The Long Home, and The Lost Country...

Tracking the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-year intervals that correspond with earth's visits by Halley's Comet, The Archive of Alternate Endings explores how stories are...

At once an ode to birds, an elegy to space, and a journey into the most haunted and uncanny corners of the human mind, The Avian Hourglass showcases Lindsey Drager's signature brilliance in a...

Winner of the Dzanc Prize for Fiction Urabá, Colombia, 1990: A violent strike at the banana plantations across Urabá leads to crops in flames, managers murdered, and the world banana economy...

The Curious Lives Of Nonprofit Martyrs - 9781950539864Author: George SingletonPublisher: Dzanc BooksPublication Date: Aug 15, 2023Number of Pages: 247 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

In August of 1844, aman named Leonard Reed takes violently ill at his home near Heathsville, Illinois,and four days later he is dead. The cause? Arsenic poisoning. The suspect? Hiswife, Betsey. The...

Winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize, The Loved Ones presents an intimate portrait of family grief, for fans of Maggie Nelson's Jane: A Murder and Kristin Prevallet's I, Afterlife There are so many...

A lush, powerful tale of family and sisterhood from award-winning author Chika Unigwe, perfect for fans of Bernardine Evaristo and Tayari Jones Udodi's death was the beginning of the raging storm but...

The Snow CollectorsAuthor: Tina May HallPublisher: Dzanc BooksPublication Date: February 12, 2020Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950539040ISBN-13: 9781950539048

With the lyrical joy and lighthearted wordplay that have won him critical acclaim, celebrated Jewish author Curt Leviant delivers a charming literary love story against the backdrop of the lush...

When Me And God Were LittleAuthor: Mads NygaardPublisher: Dzanc BooksPublication Date: Jan 18, 2022Number of Pages: 262 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950539385ISBN-13:...

In prose that is both unflinching and lyrical, Suzi Ehtesham-Zadeh presents Zan, a collection of fourteen stories that provide a deep and nuanced view of contemporary Iranian women as they navigate a...