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Laird Hunt
From National Book Award finalist Laird Hunt, a masterful collection of interwoven stories capturing one summer's day in Reagan-era Indiana.
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A mesmerizing, poignant tale of love and loss in the heart of rural America
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Laird Hunt's masterful story collection capturing one summer's day in the Indiana community where the beloved National Book Award Finalist Zorrie bloomed.
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A young black woman desperate to escape a place where the stench of violence hangs heavy in the air, and to find the lover who has promised her a new…
The powerful antebellum tale of three women and their evolving relationship as master, sister, friend, and captive.
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An atmospherically intense love story and a thrilling, fantastical tale of lost souls in peril.
Haunting essays from acclaimed author Laird Hunt balance intimate remembrance with an examination of the writing life.
In this new collection of nonfiction from the celebrated author of Zorrie, Laird…
A spine-tingling, intricate tale of love, betrayal, and psychological gamesmanship in the wake of 9/11.
From prize-winning, acclaimed author Laird Hunt, a poignant novel about a woman searching for her place in the world and finding it in the daily rhythms of life in rural…
Ottie Lee Henshawiss navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in the summer of 1920, an odyssey across the countryside witnesses a dark and fearful celebration…
A hallucinatory fairytale, full of witchcraft, where nothing is as it seems - from the critically acclaimed author of Neverhome.
In this horror story set in colonial New England, a law-abiding Puritan woman goes missing. Or perhaps she has fled or abandoned her family. Or perhaps she’s been kidnapped, and…
Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award (Fiction) From prize-winning, acclaimed author Laird Hunt, a poignant novel about a woman searching for her place in the world and finding it…
Professor Laird Hunt
An extraordinary novel about a wife who disguises herself as a man and goes off to fight in the Civil War
She calls herself Ash, but that’s not her real…
An extraordinary novel about a wife who disguises herself as a man and goes off to fight in the Civil WarShe calls herself Ash, but that’s not her real name…
Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw, a startling, challenging beauty in small-town Indiana. Quick of mind, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in the summer of…
Aurelie Sheehan
Presents stories that explore the potent and captivating boundaries between the real and the imaginary. Winner of FC2’s Catherine L. Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize.
Surrealism meets noir in this brilliant, witty, chilling novel of international espionage.
In this new collection of nonfiction from the celebrated author of Zorrie, Laird Hunt uses fiction as an inspiration, a tool, even an obsession, employing its methods to get to…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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This account of cognitive psychology is set out in 140 alphabetically-arranged entries. Written by specialists in each field, the entries are encyclopaedic in style and written at considerable length to…
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