ARTFUL HISTORICAL SETS a family’s Massachusetts summer home as the centerpoint for change and connection.

COMPLETELY FASCINATING HISTORY of farming, production of food and drink in New York City past and present.

A LOVE LETTER TO the city of Tulsa in the shape of an elegaic coming-of-age novel, complete with romance.

DOMINICAN-AMERICAN FILMMAKER Raquel Cepeda explores her family history and Latina identity in charming memoir. B PLUS

BIRD OF PARADISE
Atria Books
2013

DOMINICAN-AMERICAN FILMMAKER Raquel Cepeda explores her family history, her Latina identity in charming memoir.

ELOQUENT, SLY, INSIGHTFUL travel writing from England’s great Sara Wheeler in a decades-spanning collection.

WITH A POET’S GRACE of language and her keenly observant eye, this New York memoir stands out from the crowd.

SHARP, FUNNY CROATIAN novel contrasts everyday chaos in Zagreb with a reporter’s unhinged notes from Iraq.

QUIRKY SF SATIRE of a future world where everyone is always connected, and life, love, death are monetized.

CON ARTISTS, FAUX-PSYCHICS, ex-lovers still enmeshed: startling, poetic novel captures two vivid characters.