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CONTACT INFORMATION 8 Spring 2020 Titles EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & PUBLISHER Jamia Wilson [email protected] 14 Amethyst Editions SENIOR EDITOR & FOREIGN RIGHTS MANAGER Lauren Rosemary Hook [email protected] 16 Backlist Highlights SENIOR SALES, MARKETING & PUBLICITY MANAGER Jisu Kim [email protected] 25 Rights & Permissions FIEBRE TROPICAL TABITHA AND MAGOO DRESS UP TOO A Novel lllustrated by Ellis van der Does

Uprooted from Bogotá into an ant-infested “Whether you know it or not, you are waiting for a book like this. Fiebre Tropical is a triumph, and we’re all triumphant in its presence.” —DANIEL HANDLER Miami townhouse, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church replete with abstinent salsa dancers and baptisms for the dead.

But there, Francisca meets the magnetic Carmen: head of the youth group and the FIEBRE pastor’s daughter. As her mother’s mental TROPICAL health deteriorates, Francisca falls for Car- men and turns to Jesus to grow closer with her, even as their relationship hurtles toward a shattering conclusion.

JULIANA DELGADO LOPERA is an award-winning

A NOVEL BY JULIANA DELGADO LOPERA Colombian writer and historian based in .

“Fiebre Tropical is a triumph, and we’re all AMETHYST EDITIONS is a modern, imprint Tabitha and Magoo love to play dress up in MICHELLE TEA is the author of the novel triumphant in its presence.” founded by Michelle Tea. their room. Tabitha uses her brother’s shirts Black Wave and the nonfiction books Against Memoir and How to Grow Up, —DANIEL HANDLER to make superhero capes, and Magoo uses his sister’s frilly skirts to fashion gowns. among many others. She founded RADAR They’re disappointed to think they can’t go Productions and Story Hour, outside in their new outfits, but then the and lives in . drag queen Morgana magically appears! ELLIS VAN DER DOES is a Dutch illustrator With their new friend’s help, they learn to and designer living in London. defy restrictive roles and celebrate being themselves. The trio, dressed in color- AMETHYST EDITIONS is a modern, queer ful costumes and riding in a flying car, then imprint founded by Michelle Tea. heads to the local library for a diverse and fun-filled story time.

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2 FALL 2019 FALL 2019 3 THE NOT WIVES THE LIVING DAYS Carley Moore Ananda Devi Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman Winner of a 2019 French Voices Award!

The Not Wives traces the lives of three A chance encounter on Portobello Road “Gritty, sexy, very queer— up-all-night compelling.” “A magnificent gem.” —ANDREA LAWLOR women as they navigate the Occupy Wall incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction — j e n n i f e r c r o f t A novel of sex-positive awakening he Not Wives traces the lives of TthreeStreet women as theymovement navigate the and one another: Stevie between Mary, a seventy-five-year-old British and burgeoning political resistance, Occupy Wall Street movement and set in Occupy-era City. one another. Stevie is a nontenured professoris anda mom nontenured in the middle professor and mom in the spinster, and Cub, a thirteen-year-old Jamai- of a divorce; her best friend Mel is a “ A provocative and well-told story about chosen community, friendship, bartender, torn between her long- and human frailty.” term girlfriendmiddle and a desire of to aexplore divorce; her best friend Mel is a can boy from Brixton. As dementia overtakes

© AMY© TOUCHETTE —KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) polyamory; and Johanna is a homeless teenagerbartender,tryingtofindherway intornthe between her long-term girl- her reality, Mary clings to phantoms, latching “ A terrificliterarynovelaboutwhatitmeanstobelongtoyourselfwhile world, who bears shared witness to “ Beautifully written, visceral, and ecstatic. Unafraid, as trying to be a part of something bigger.” a tragedy that interlaces her life with angels might be, to bear witness to the force of entropy —INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW Stevie’s.friend and a desire to explore polyamory; and on to Cub and channelingpulling us all towardher death.” remaining —PRETI TANEJA, author of We That Are Young “ The Not Wives is not just for not wives—it’s for all of us struggling is the author of CARLEY MOORE with how to be human amid the ongoing clamor and bewilderment of In the Johannamidst of economic collapse is a and homeless teenager trying to find energy into their relationship. But their the essay collection 16 Pills, the poetry chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an twenty-first-centurylife.” classconflict,late-nighthookupsand chapbook Portal Poem, and the young complicated exes, these characters A unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, a —LAURA SIMS adult novel The Stalker Chronicles. Her piece togetherher away new American in the world, who bears shared wit- macabre romance comesseventy-five-year-old to a horrific white British spinster,climax and Cub, a thirteen-year-old Jamaican boy from Brixton. As work has appeared in the American “ Carley Moore has created a landscape of achingly authentic female lives identity of resistance—against the dementia overtakes her reality, Mary clings to phan- Poetry Review, Brainchild, the Brooklyn that we rarely see given such literary treatment. A compulsively readable loomingshadowoffinancialprecarity, ness to a tragedy that interlaces her life with as white supremacy, poverty,toms, latching andon to Cub class and channeling con her remain- - , the Journal of Popular Culture, and novel with deep roots in our gorgeous, messed-up world.” thegentrificationofNewYork,andthe ing energy into their relationship. But their macabre other publications. She is a clinical —MICHELLE TEA traditional role of wife. romance comes to a horrific climax as white suprem- professor of writing and contemporary Stevie’s. flict explode on the streetsacy, desperation, of London.and class conflict explode on the culture and creative production in “ I was in dire need of a queer, sex-positive mom in literature—and then streets of London. the Global Liberal Studies Program the gift of The Not Wives showed up. I couldn’t put this extraordinary The Living Days encapsulates Ananda Devi’s daring, at New York University and a senior book down.” —LYNN MELNICK unflinching talent and paints an unforgettable portrait associate at Bard College’s Institute In the midst of economic collapse and class ANANDA DEVI was born inof anMauritius increasingly nationalistic in metropolis. 1957 for Writing and Thinking. She lives in “ With seemingly effortless prose, Carley Moore paints a rich portrait of New York City. threedeeplycompellingwomennavigatingthepolaritiesandconfining conflict, late-night hookups and complicated and currently lives in France. She is the norms of modern-day life.” —ETAF RUM exes, these characters piece together a new award-winning author of thirteen novels as ISBN 978-1-936932-68-9 $17.95 US American identity of resistance—against the well as short stories and poetry. looming shadow of financial precarity, the ISBN 978-1-936932-70-2 $15.95 US JEFFREY ZUCKERMAN is digital editor of Music gentrification of New York, and the tradi- & Literature magazine. He also translated

tional role of wife. Living_Days_full_cover.indd 1 8/7/19 12:48 PM Devi’s Eve Out of Her Ruins. “Gritty, sexy, very queer—up-all-night “A gorgeously written, profoundly CARLEY MOORE is the author of 16 Pills and compelling.” upsetting fairy tale of race, class, the young-adult novel The Stalker Chroni- power, and desire.” —ANDREA LAWLOR cles. She is a clinical professor in the Global Liberal Studies Program at NYU and a senior —KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) associate at Bard College’s Institute for Writ- ing and Thinking.

AMETHYST EDITIONS is a modern, queer imprint founded by Michelle Tea.

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4 FALL 2019 FALL 2019 5 I LOVE MYSELF WHEN I AM LAUGHING . . . DAUGHTER OF EARTH AND THEN AGAIN WHEN I AM LOOKING MEAN AND IMPRESSIVE Agnes Smedley A Zora Neale Hurston Reader Foreword by Alice Walker Edited by Alice Walker With a new introduction by Paola Mendoza

During her lifetime, Zora Neale Hurston This semiautobiographical account of an was praised for her writing but condemned early twentieth-century activist details grow- for her independence and audacity. Her ing up in rural poverty in farming settlements work fell into obscurity until the 1970s, and mining towns; discovering the double when Alice Walker rediscovered Hurston’s standards of race and sex among East Coast unmarked grave and anthologized her writ- intellectuals; facing false espionage charges; ing, establishing her as an intellectual and maintaining independence through two leader for future generations of black writ- tormented marriages. Groundbreaking in ers. A testament to the power and breadth its portrayal of sexism within the Leftist of Hurston’s oeuvre, featuring a new preface movement, Daughter of Earth was uniquely by Walker, the newest edition of this endur- prescient in its intersectional exploration ing text remains as vital as ever for readers of oppression, and endures as a necessary today. text for progressive and socialist movements today. ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891–1960) was a writer and anthropologist who became a AGNES SMEDLEY (1892–1950) was an Ameri- A Zora Neale Hurston Reader prominent figure in the Harlem Renais- can journalist and writer, well-known for her EDITED BY ALICE WALKER Introduction by Mary Helen Washington sance. Hurston is the author of the classic sympathetic chronicling of the Communist novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, as well forces in the Chinese Civil War. During World as countless other volumes of fiction, poetry, War I, she worked for India’s independence “We owe our world to women like “One of the greatest writers of our time.” and scholarly nonfiction. Her nonfiction book from the United Kingdom, receiving financial Agnes Smedley, who worked without —TONI MORRISON Barracoon, about the transatlantic slave support from the government of Germany. peace or resolution toward a future trade, was published posthumously in 2018. they could not see.” —PAOLA MENDOZA ALICE WALKER is a poet, writer, and activist. She is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Color Pur- ple, and the author of multiple novels, short stories, children’s books, essays, and poetry collections. Walker’s works have been trans- lated into dozens of languages worldwide.

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6 FALL 2019 FALL 2019 7 THE NAMES OF ALL THE FLOWERS WINNER APSARA ENGINE The Louise Meriwether A Memoir First Book Prize Bishakh Som Melissa Valentine

Melissa and her older brother Junior grow up The eight delightfully eerie stories in Apsara running around the disparate neighborhoods Engine are a subtle intervention into every- of 1990s Oakland, two of six children to a day reality. A woman drowns herself in a past white Quaker father and a black Southern- affair, a tourist chases another guest into transplant mother. But as Junior approaches an unforeseen past, and a nonbinary aca- adolescence, strangers react differently to demic researches postcolonial cartography. his presence; he develops a hard front and Imagining diverse futures and rewriting old falls into drug dealing. Right before Junior’s mythologies, these comics delve into strange twentieth birthday, the family is torn apart architectures, fetishism, and heartbreak. when he is murdered as a result of gang vio- Painted in rich sepia-toned watercolors, lence. Apsara Engine is trans illustrator Bishakh The Names of All the Flowers connects one Som’s highly anticipated debut work of fic- tragic death to a collective grief for all black tion. Showcasing a series of fraught, darkly boys who die too young. A lyrical recounting humorous, and seemingly alien worlds, Som of a life lost, Melissa Valentine’s debut mem- captures the weight of twenty-first-century oir is an intimate portrait of a family frac- life as we hurl ourselves forward into the tured by the school-to-prison pipeline and unknown. “A set of uncanny shorts full of uniquely an enduring love letter to an adored older camouflaged and slow-moving yet BISHAKH SOM is an illustrator and author “Lyrical and smart, with appropriate brother. effective trap doors.” whose work has been featured in anthologies undercurrents of rage.” MELISSA VALENTINE is from Oakland, CA. She such as We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Com- —EUGENE LIM —EMILY RABOTEAU has been a fellow at the San Francisco Writ- ics Anthology, as well as publications like ers Grotto, and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Buzzfeed, and the Brooklyn Jezebel, Guernica, and others. She currently Rail. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. lives in Brooklyn, NY.

THE LOUISE MERIWETHER FIRST BOOK PRIZE is awarded to the best debut work by women and nonbinary writers of color in celebration of Meriwether’s legacy and diversifying the literary canon.

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8 SPRING 2020 SPRING 2020 9 PARENTING FOR LIBERATION María Fernanda Ampuero A Guide for Raising Black Children Translated by Frances Riddle Trina Greene Brown

In lucid and compelling prose, Ampuero Parenting for Liberation fills a critical gap in sheds light on the hidden aspects of the resources for Black parents. Pairing personal home: the grotesque realities of family, com- stories from her successful podcast with ing of age, religion, and class struggle. A open-ended prompts designed to inspire family’s maids witness a horrible cycle of reflection and creativity, the book provides abuse, a girl is auctioned off by a gang of guidance for those seeking to dismantle criminals, and two sisters find themselves harmful narratives about the Black fam- at the mercy of their spiteful brother. With ily, initiate difficult conversations on social violence masquerading as love, the charac- issues with their children, and find com- ters in these stories spend their lives trapped munity with other parents who share their reenacting their past traumas. struggle.

Named one of the ten best fiction books of TRINA GREENE BROWN is the creator of Parenting 2018 by the New York Times en Español, for Liberation, a virtual platform launched in Cockfight explores the power of the home to 2016 featuring blogs and podcasts that aim both create and destroy those within it. to connect, inspire, and uplift Black parents. Brown was named the 2017 Black Feminist MARÍA FERNANDA AMPUERO is a writer and jour- Rising by Black Women’s Blueprint and an nalist born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1976. Inspirational Parent in 2018 by CADRE. Cockfight is her first work of fiction, and her “Ampuero’s literary voice is tough first book to be translated into English. and beautiful at once: her stories are exquisite and dangerous objects.” FRANCES RIDDLE is a writer and translator

—YURI HERRERA based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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10 SPRING 2020 SPRING 2020 11 CELEBRATE PEOPLE’S HISTORY! SECOND LIFE IN THE IRON MILLS The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution EDITION And Other Stories Edited by Josh MacPhee Rebecca Harding Davis With forewords by Rebecca Solnit and Charlene Carruthers Edited by Tillie Olsen | With a new foreword by Kim Kelly

Since 1988, Josh MacPhee has commis- Originally published in 1861, the story “Life sioned and produced hundreds of posters by in the Iron Mills” remains a classic of social artists that pay tribute to revolution, racial realism and proletarian literature that paints justice, women’s rights, queer liberation, a bleak and incisive portrait of nineteenth- labor struggles, and creative activism and century industrial America. This reissued organizing. Some of today’s most interest- edition includes an updated critical foreword ing and socially engaged artists imagine by labor journalist Kim Kelly and shares a and interpret key events and figures in an uniquely prescient capitalist critique with a often-overlooked history of grassroots strug- new generation. gles. Featuring a hundred new posters, this REBECCA HARDING DAVIS (1831–1910) was an second edition presents these essential American author and journalist, and a pio- moments as a visual tour through decades neer of literary realism. Lauded as a “brave and across continents. new voice” by both Louisa May Alcott and JOSH MACPHEE is a designer, artist, and archi- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Davis held a prolific vist. He is a founding member of the Just- career with over five hundred published seeds Artists’ Cooperative, and the author of works, but fell out of public knowledge after “These posters keep alive some power and over half a dozen books. her death. some hope in the public sphere.” “You must read this book and let your TILLIE OLSEN (1912–2007) was an American —REBECCA SOLNIT writer and early feminist. Her most nota- heart be broken.” ble works include “Tell Me a Riddle” and —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Silences.

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12 SPRING 2020 SPRING 2020 13 AMETHYST EDITIONS Founded by Michelle Tea Amethyst Editions is an imprint founded by Michelle Tea championing emerging queer writers who complicate the conversation around LGBTQ+ experiences beyond a coming-out narrative.

AMOS MAC is a writer, artist, ROCCO KAYIATOS is a writer, and producer based in Los organizer, educator, and former Angeles. His photography has hip hop artist (stage name been featured in publications Katastrophe). He was the head of “ Over the course of its ten-year run, the magazine Original Plumb- ndependently published from 2009 to 2019, Original including the New York Times, the video education department Interview, Vogue Italia, and OUT. at BuzzFeed and continues to ing made thousands of us queer and trans people laugh, cry, and Plumbing grew from a Bay Area zine to a nationally A love of storytelling influenced produce content in the new gasp out loud. This is how we talked with each other, inspired ORIGINAL PLUMBING BLACK WAVE acclaimed print quarterly dedicated to trans men. his leap into television, where media space. He is a man of each other, and gave each other the strength to keep on living For ten years, the magazine was the premier resource he works across scripted and trans experience who began his outside the box. This collection is an invaluable, unapologetic documentary series. transition in 2001. I archive of a multiplicity of queer and trans experiences.” focused on their experiences and imaginations, featuring —KATE BORNSTEIN writing on both playful and political topics like selfies, bathrooms,The and safer sex;Best interviews with icons suchof as Ten Years of Trans Male Culture Michelle Tea “ When OP burst onto the scene, it was an absolute game changer Janet Mock, Silas Howard, T Cooper, and Ian Harvie; and in trans media and representation. This collection is a beauti- visual art, photography, and short fiction. ful tribute to that treasured publication, and an authentic and moving representation of trans male culture. Essential for both In celebration of the magazine’s ten-year run, this essential longtime readers and those diving in for the first time.” collectionEdited compiles the best of all twentyby issues. SelecAmos- Mac and Rocco Kayiatos “An apocalyptic fantasia.” —NEW YORK TIMES —JILL SOLOWAY tions are reprinted in full color, with a foreword by activist

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The Summer of Dead takes readers on a lyrical road trip windingTHE through death,SUMMER breakups, OF DEAD BIRDS SINCE I LAID MY BURDEN DOWN “A near mythic journey into life-stopping loss: and the complications of everyday a howl, and a hymn to what’s mortal.” living. With a knack for finding —MARIE HOWE humor in grief and absurdity in

THE SUMMER OF DEAD BIRDS beauty, Ali Liebegott embraces life’s “A fierce, funny, agonized, cracked-open aria Ali Liebegott Brontez Purnell casual highs and inevitable lows, in homage to the presence and passing of exposing her humanity and inviting fiercely loved things.” a connectivity with ourselves and —MAGGIE NELSON the people who populate our gorgeous,“A fierce,ridiculous, sometimes funny, agonized, cracked-open aria in homage to the presence and Winner of the Whiting Award for Fiction! “Sweet and so sad and the writing’s perfect.” painful planet. —

“A chronicle of grief & its animals—the birds our passing of fiercely loved things.”—MAGGIE NELSON cities kill, the dogs who are our best friends, the Home for his uncle’s funeral, DeShawn ponders family, church, and his lovers we can’t keep, the strange beauty of a mother’s death, the strange translation of all of death’s old

© JEN ROSENSTEIN JEN © meanings in a time of mass extinction.” lifelong quest for love. This raw, funny novella traces a queer black man’s —ARIANA REINES The Summer of Dead Birds, poet Ali Liebegott’s newest novel-in-verse, ALI LIEBEGOTT “Full of wry heartbreak and sweet, sad humor; sexual and artistic awakenings as he stumbles—often painfully, some- ALI LIEBEGOTT is a poet, writer, righteous fury and tender grief.” takes readers on a lyrical road trip winding through death, breakups, and and artist who has published three —MICHELLE TEA previous books: The Beautifully times joyously—down memory lane. Worthless, The IHOP Papers, and “A linked sequential lyric memoir balancing the complications of everyday living. Cha-Ching! She is the recipient of aphoristic ingenuity, deadpan irreverence, and two Lambda Literary Awards and the deep interior exploration of the soul.” a Ferro-Grumley Award. She has —SAM SAX written for the Emmy Award– winning TV show Transparent, and currently lives in Los Angeles. ISBN 978-1-936932-50-4 $17.95 US

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AGAINST MEMOIR WE WERE WITCHES Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms Ariel Gore

Michelle Tea “A singularly spectacular siren song.” —LIDIA YUKNAVITCH

Winner of the 2019 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award Ariel is a teen mom, aspiring writer, and feminist witch trying to get a col- for the Art of the Essay! lege education in the early nineties during the first Bush administration.

“A pulpy and marvelous parade.” —EILEEN MYLES Basically she’s screwed.

Although best known for her memoirs, Michelle Tea is also a prolific journalist. Against Memoir is her first collection of essays, delivered with her signature candor and dark humor.

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“Published in 1984, Native Tongue got it right. In the power and “A classic text of angry feminismprecision of language, and women can an begin exemplary to change the world.” possibilities of fatness, and shows us that liberation —MAGGIE SHEN KING, author of An Excess Male experiment in speculative fiction.” is possible.” n 2205, the Nineteenth Amendment has been repealed and I men hold absolute power. The Earth’s economy relies on an insular group of linguists who “breed” women to become inter­ —SARAI WALKER stellar translators until they—URSULA are sent to the Barren House K. to awaitLE GUIN death. But instead, these women are secretly creating a lan­ guage of their own, Láadan, to reclaim their autonomy and make resistance possible for all. The first in this acclaimed science fiction trilogy, and with a new foreword by author Leni Zumas, Native Tongue remains Virgie Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are Originally published in a testament1984, to the powera of languageyear and collectivebefore action The to reenvision an oppressive world. Handmaid’s Tale, this dystopian trilogy is a testa- valued equally, food is free from moral judgment, ment to the power of language and women’s collec- FOREWORD BY LENI ZUMAS and you can jiggle through life with respect. In con- tive action. ISBN 978-1-936932-62-7 $17.95 US cise and candid language, she delves into unlearning “A classic text of angry and an exemplary experiment in speculative fiction.” URSULA— K. LE GUIN fatphobia, dismantling sexist notions of fashion, and rejecting diet culture’s greatest lie: that fat people need to wait before beginning their best lives.

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TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NEGRO GIRLS YOUR ART WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE “A timely, welcome book.” —THE MILLIONS GIRLS NEGRO FOR SCHOOL TRAINING Camille Acker A WELL-READ BLACK GIRL BOOK CLUB PICK Beth Pickens hen you’re black and female in America, society’s W rules were never meant to make you safe or free. Over 5,000 copies sold! Camille Acker’s relatable yet unexpected characters break Over 7,000 copies sold! down the walls of respectability politics, showing that the only way for black women to be free is to be themselves.

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“This flawlessly executed work reinvigorates of the narrow perceptions they facethe as short fictionblack genre.” women.” —BUST —BUST

“Training School for Negro Girls is a symphony of story:

the clear, true voices—NEW of girls and women YORK shaping who theyTIMES might Acker Camille be against the constraints of the weights and counterweights of race and history and gender. Marvelous.” As a teenager, Beth Pickens realized that art was —VERONICA CHAMBERS When you’re black and female in“With freshAmerica, portrayals, vivid prose, society’s imperative for reflecting—and thus remaking—the and real attitude, we see Washington, DC, anew, as a backdrop for black girls coming into their own.” rules were never meant to make —BRIDGETTyou M.safe DAVIS or free. world. Writing in the aftermath of the 2016 US Camille Acker’s relatable yet unexpected characters presidential election, she reminds burgeoning artists break down the walls of respectability politics,ISBN 978-1-936932-37-5 show $17.95 US - that their work is more important now than ever, and ing that the only way for black women to be free is to advises on fostering creativity, sustaining an innova- be themselves. tive practice, and navigating institutional funding.

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16 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 17 THE NAKED WOMAN ARID DREAMS

Armonía Somers “ A timely translation of a Latin American hidden Stories jewel. Wild and brilliant, Armonía Somers speaks to Translated by Kit Maude us in the here and now of our troubled present.” —CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA, author of The Iliac Crest Duanwad Pimwana THE NAKED WOMANTHE NAKED Shortlisted for the 2019 Nationalgroundbreaking Translation feminist classic from Award! 1950s Uruguay, Translated by Mui Poopoksakul A The Naked Woman was met with scandal and outrage due to its erotic content, cynicism, and stylistic ingenuity. The novel follows Rebeca Linke’s ardent, ultimately tragic, attempt to free herself from a hostile society. Juxtaposing fantastic imagery “Cleverly exposes the torment of imposed gender roles “Somers’s novel is a surreal,and gripping brutal depictions of violence,experience.” Somers will resonate with readers of Clarice Lispector, Angela Carter, and Djuna Barnes. ARMONÍA SOMERS and their sprawling effect on characters’ psyches.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) “ The extraordinary power of The Naked Woman lies in the mysterious sensation of a metaphor whose —NEW YORK TIMES meaning is being suspended. Like all literary greats, Originally published in 1950sSomers offersUruguay, no answers, she Thejust amplifies Naked the questions.” Woman caused controversy and—ANDRÉS outrage BARBA, author of Suchdue Small Handsto its In thirteen stories that investigate ordinary and shocking erotic content. Somers’s English debut will working-class , characters aspire for more resonate with readers of Clarice Lispector, Djuna but remain suspended in routine. They bide their

“A surreal, nightmarish book about women’s ISBN 978-1-936932-43-6 $16.95 US time, waiting for an extraordinary event to end their Barnes, and Angela Carter. struggle for autonomy—and how that struggle is (always, inevitably) met with violence.” —CARMEN MARIA MACHADO stasis. With curious wit, this collection offers revela- tory insight and subtle critique, exploring class, gen- der, and disenchantment in a changing country.

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MARS AIN’T I A DIVA? Stories Beyoncé and the Power of Asja Bakic´ Pop Culture Pedagogy Translated by Jennifer Zoble MARS Kevin Allred Foreword by Cheryl Clarke “These are sly, uncommon stories—a rare mix of the witty and the visceral, with no small hint of the decadent “A fun, engaging, and important read for longtime and transgressive. Asja Bakic´ is a major talent.” Beyoncé fans and newcomers alike.” —JEFF VANDERMEER —FRANCHESCA RAMSEY

Mars showcases a series of twisted universes where In 2010 Professor Kevin Allred created the university every character is tasked with making sense of their Stories by Asja Bakić course “Politicizing Beyoncé” to both wide acclaim strange reality. One woman will be freed from purga- Translated by Jennifer Zoble and controversy. Allred brings his syllabus to life by tory once she writes the perfect book; another abides pairing music videos and songs with foundational in a world devoid of physical contact. Black feminist texts, and combines analysis with classroom anecdotes.

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18 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 19 MAGGIE TERRY LOVE WAR STORIES Sarah Schulman Ivelisse Rodriguez Finalist for the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction! “Sarah Schulman’s startling brilliance and wry humor is everything.” “An exceptional collection of short stories.” —JACQUELINE WOODSON —BUSTLE

Fresh out of rehab, former police detective Maggie Puerto Rican girls are raised to want one thing: true Terry wants nothing more than to quietly rebuild her love. Yet they are brought up by women whose lives life. But her first day as a private investigator lands are marked by broken promises, grief, and betrayal. her in the middle of a sensational new case. If Maggie While some believe that they’ll be the ones to finally is going to solve this murder, she’ll have to shake the make it work, others swear not to repeat cycles of ghosts—dead NYPD partner, vindictive ex, steadfast violence. This collection documents how these “love drug habit—that have long ruled her life. wars” break out across generations as individuals find themselves caught in the crosshairs of romance, expectations, and community.

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KNITTING THE FOG FEMINIST FOLKTALES SERIES PHELPS Claudia D. Hernández KAMALA Edited by Ethel Johnston Phelps FEMINIST FOLKTALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD Illustrated by Suki Boynton “In light of the current misunderstandings surrounding ETHEL JOHNSTON PHELPS

KAMALA Introduction by KATE SCHATZ | With illustrations by SUKI BOYNTON immigrants fleeing violence in Central America, this “These stories tell girls it’s okay to be afraid, to be What might we dream of book should be required reading.” after reading these tales? flawed, to be hungry, to be curious, to be angry, to be In Kamala, the second volume in the Feminist Folktales series, stories from countries such as India, Peru, imperfect.” —MOM REVIEW China, and Ireland follow clever, outspoken heroines—demonstrating how the courage and power of women hold our world together. —RENÉE WATSON Weaving together narrative essay and bilingual poetry,

“Who stole these fierce, Claudia D. Hernández’s lyrical debut follows seven- bawdy stories from the mouths of Bringing readers tales from China, Sudan, Norway, mothers and transformed the strong girls into damsels in distress? Who cast the spell . . . and how do we break it? year-old Claudia as she wakes up one day to find her With books like this, obviously!” Peru, and beyond, this best-selling four-volume series —Kate Schatz, Rad American Women A–Z VOL. II mother gone, having left for the to flee reminds us that girls everywhere have been the heroes isbn 978-155861-940-1 $14.95 Us domestic abuse and pursue economic prosperity. of their own stories for centuries. Three years later, her mother returns for her daugh- ters, and the family begins the monthlong journey to El Norte. WINNER The Louise Meriwether First Book Prize

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20 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 21 THE MADAME CURIE COMPLEX THE FEMINIST PORN BOOK The Hidden History of Women in Science The Politics of Producing Pleasure Julie Des Jardins Edited by Tristan Taormino, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Constance Penley, and Mireille Miller-Young Why are the fields of science and technology still considered to be predominantly male professions? The Madame Curie Complex Addressing the fraught history of pornography and the rise of the moves beyond the most common explanations—lack of resources, antiporn movement, The Feminist Porn Book identifies the impor- exclusion from social networks of men—to provide historical con- tance of porn made for and by feminists in one comprehensive text and unexpected revelations about women’s contributions to collection. the sciences. $17.95 • 978-1-55861-613-4 • 352 pages • Rights: World x Turkey $22.95 • 978-1-55861-818-3 • 328 pages • Rights: World x Germany x Spain

THE CRUNK FEMINIST COLLECTION COMPLAINTS & DISORDERS (SECOND EDITION) Edited by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, The Sexual Politics of Sickness and Robin M. Boylorn Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English Introduction by Susan Faludi Unapologetic and necessary, this collection of pop culture criticism takes on beauty parlor politics, prison abolition, and This concise history of the sexual politics of medical practices Rihanna. The Crunk Feminist Collective blog, with an annual shows how biomedical rationale was used to justify discrimina- readership of nearly one million, fosters dialogue for critical tion, and how its vestiges are evident in abortion policy and other homegirls stuck between loving hip hop and “ratchet culture” reproductive rights struggles today. while hating patriarchy and sexism. $24.95 • 978-1-55861-943-2 • 360 pages • Rights: World x South Africa $9.95 • 978-1-55861-695-0 • 112 pages • Rights: World x France x Japan x Spain

“HIGH VOLTAGE—FULL OF YOUTH, DETERMINATION, AND POWER.”—EMILY BAZELON THE FEMINIST UTOPIA PROJECT The Yellow Wall-Paper Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future Charlotte Perkins Gilman Edited by Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff First published in 1892, this classic women’s studies text, an FP

THE FEMINIST UTOPIA PROJECT best seller, is written as the secret journal of a woman who, fail- FIFTY-SEVEN VISIONS OF A WILDLY BETTER FUTURE Cutting-edge voices including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, ing to relish the joys of marriage and motherhood, is sentenced and Sheila Heti invite us to imagine the world we want. Featur- to a country rest cure. ing essays, speculative fiction, interviews, and art, The Feminist Utopia Project challenges the status quo, describes affirmative visions, and exhorts us to demand a radically better future.

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WOMEN WHO KILL BUCHANAN HISAYO ROWAN GO HOME! Where is home? How do you get there? Does it exist? This anthology of Asian diasporic Ann Jones writers muses on the impossibility of Edited by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan the slur “go home!”

“ I readthisbookandseemypeople—seeus—andfeel,in Foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen ourcollectiveoutsiderhood,athome.” “This provocative book . . . reminds us again that women are entitled —OCEAN VUONG GO HOME! “ T o  be from nowhere is the state of Asian diaspora, but there is also a wild humor and imagination that comes frombeingunderestimated,rarelycounted,hardlyseen. Here,webegintodrawthehopefuloutlinesofacollective GO to their rage.” —New York Times Book Review historyforthosesodisparateyetoftenlumpedtogether.” “Language allows for many homes, and perhaps the writers—and —JENNY ZHANG

“Againsttheracistdemandthatwegobacktowherewe HOME! comefrom,wesaythatwearealreadyathome.” readers of the anthology too—will succeed in returning home, or —VIET THANH NGUYEN, This legendary best seller exposes the truths and consequences of fromtheforeword finding a home, through these words.” —NPR women on the edges of society—women driven to kill. From Lizzie isbn 978-1-936932-01-6 $18.95 Us Asian diasporic writers imagine “home” through an array of fic- Borden to Jean Harris to Aileen Wuornos, this riveting investigaASIAN AMERICAN- WRITERS’ WORKSHOP tion, memoir, and poetry. tion will change the ways you think about crime and punishment.

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22 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 23 THE COSMOPOLITANS “Vivid and moving. Novels about the past that can celebrate it with intelligence rather than nostalgia are rare and are themselves to be celebrated.” —SAMUEL R. DELANY, author of Sarah Schulman Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

“A deep, smart, and satisfying novel.” —RABIH ALAMEDDINE, author of An Unnecessary Woman

“This novel is book club gold—weighty dilemmas, unforgettable characters, and a roller-coaster plot!” —TAYARI JONES, author of Silver Sparrow A gay black man and a straight white woman build an intimate

“The psychological insights Schulman shares with artful simplicity will shatter your heart. A masterpiece.” —MICHELLE TEA, author of How to Grow Up friendship as outsiders in 1950s Greenwich Village. Based on RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS

SARAH SCHULMAN Balzac’s Cousin Bette, the novel portrays the corrosive influence reenwich Village, 1958. Earl, a black, gay actor, and Bette, a white secretary, have been neighbors for thirty years, forming a deep bond as refugees from small-minded hometowns. But when Hortense, a wealthy young actress with links to Bette’s painful past, shows of oppressive systems on individual lives and relationships. It up, Earl and Bette’s hard-won assumptions are shaken to the core. The Cosmopolitans is a beautifully written, page-turning novel about friendship, Glove, and revenge set in the disappeared world of 1950s New York. explores the pain of family shunning, representations of people ISBN 978-155861-904-3 $15.95 US US PERMISSIONS a novel by SARAH SCHULMAN of color, and class dynamics. FRED COURTRIGHT The Permissions Company $15.95 • 978-1-55861-904-3 • 392 pages • Rights: World x Ukraine x Russia [email protected] BRAZIL & PORTUGAL BEIJING COMRADES bei tong eijing Comrades tells the story of Handong, an LUCIANA VILLAS-BOAS arrogant businessman, and his obsessive, tumul- Btuous relationship with Lan Yu, a working-class bei tong student. Together the two men navigate the uncharted Bei Tong terrain of a same-sex relationship in Beijing on the brink TRANSLATED BY SCOTT E. MYERS of the Tian’anmen Square protests. First posted pseudon- ymously on the Internet in the nineties, Beijing Comrades Villas-Boas & Moss Literary Agency is among mainland China’s earliest and most influential contemporary gay novels. Provocative and controver- Translated by Scott E. Myers sial, the story quickly gained a cult following because of its depiction of gay sexuality and portrayal of the socio- political unrest of late-eighties Beijing. This is the first beijing comrades [email protected] English-language translation of Beijing Comrades.

“Scott E. Myers’s translation of this landmark work of Chinese queer fiction is a pure joy on a literary level. A must-read for Beijing Comrades tells the story of Handong, an arrogant busi- understanding sexual diversity beyond the West.” —FRAN MARTIN, author of Backward Glances

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“Candid and courageous. An exploration of the conjunction of love, money, and politics in comrades a pivotal moment in postsocialist China.” Yu, a working-class student. Together the two men navigate the SILKE WENIGER —SHELDON LU, author of Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics a novel uncharted terrain of a same-sex relationship in Beijing on the Literarische Agentur Silke Weniger ISBN 978-155861-907-4 $16.95 US

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B r i d g e t M. D a v s “ At its core, Into the Go-Slow is a love story—romantic love, love of family, The Deborah Harris Agency “Bridgett M. Davis has created a beautiful allegory at the heart of a real- love of culture, love of self. Angie is an unforgettable heroine who will steal ist novel—an allegory of love, family, expansion, hope, and transforma- your heart and break it, too. Bridgett M. Davis is a brilliant writer.” —tAyAri JonEs, author of Silver Sparrow Into the Go-Slow tion—all of it worked out compassionately and with integrity in the only country that offers both allegory and realism—Nigeria. A strong book.” —Chris AbAni, author of The Secret History of Las Vegas [email protected] “Stories about African Americans going off to Africa in search of things Bridgett M. Davis past and lost have become familiar. But in Into the Go-Slow, American novelist Bridgett M. Davis breathes new life into this classic motif . . . Davis’s novel is as much an African story as it is an American story.” —Brittle PaPer I

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American community in the wake of the 1980s: Who are we now? What t Into the is Africa to us? Homeland or fantasy? Into the Go-Slow is a page turner; o It’s 1986, and twenty-one-year-old Angie travels from her home its daring protagonist is a young woman on the cusp of adulthood, ITALY searching for the legacy of the sister she has lost to an era of change.” t h —AyAnA MAthis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie e n 1987 Detroit, twenty-one-year-old Angie passes time working in a G in Detroit to Lagos, Nigeria, to retrace her late sister Ella’s steps. mall and watching sitcoms with her mom. But beneath the surface, ROBERTA OLIVA Ishe is consumed by thoughts of her sister’s death years earlier in Nige- o ria. Ella had introduced Angie to Black Power and a vision of returning Go-Slow -

to Africa. On impulse, Angie travels to Lagos and begins to retrace Ella’s S steps. Against a backdrop of the city’s infamous go-slow—traffic as wild l While there, she unravels mysteries of the past, and opens herself and unpredictable as a Fela lyric—she uncovers some harsh truths. For o

w Natoli, Stefan & Oliva anyone who has wished to be of a different era, this book captures the pain of living vicariously and the exhilaration of finding yourself. briDGEtt M. DAVis’s debut novel, Shifting Through Neutral, was a finalist up to life, love, and self-discovery. for the 2005 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She is a professor at Baruch College, City University of New York, where she is the director of the Sid- [email protected] ney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program.

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