One moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home ... Godfrey takes us into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls--and boy--accused of a savage murder --Back cover.

In the tradition of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, this work is a gripping, true-crime story of a group of middle school teenagers who beat a female classmate to death, and then tried to cover up the crime. Includes a new...

Following the extraordinary success of her novel Veronica, Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories--her first in more than 10 years.

Tadek Gradinski grows up witnessing the multiple invasions and crimes of World War II sweep over his village; he is arrested, tortured, and swept away into the Gulag with a twenty-five year sentence

I was immediately mesmerized . . . as brilliant as it is haunting. --Toni Morrison