Parallel Stories

Author

Lucy Ellmann

LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of “happy couples”, Weapons of...

Author	Alexander Chee
ISBN	1328764524

From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in art.

As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times,...

Author

Wallace Stegner

Called a "magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives,...

Author	Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre
ISBN	3462034960

Die Ausgangssituation ist klassisch: Der Ich-Erzähler, gerade mal Anfang Zwanzig, ist soeben von seiner Freundin verlassen worden; nach vierjähriger Beziehung nun per Fax der Schlussstrich. Ende, aus, vorbei. Natürlich ist der Verlassene im Moment des Aus so verliebt wie in all den Jahren...

Author	Irvin D. Yalom
ISBN	0465029639

When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster’s office for anti-Semitic remarks he made during a school speech, he is forced, as punishment, to memorize passages about Spinoza from the autobiography of the German poet Goethe. Rosenberg is stunned to discover that Goethe,...

Author	Juliet Escoria
ISBN	1612197590

A shockingly dark, funny, and heartbreaking portrait of a young teenager's clash with mental illness and her battle toward understanding and recovery

Ambitious, talented 14-year-old honors student Juliet is poised for success at her Southern California high school. However, she soon...