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2017 TH Foreign Rights Guide 052217.Indd FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE 2017 NANCI McCLOSKEY, RIGHTS DIRECTOR [email protected] Contents UPCOMING FRONTLIST The Glass Eye ..............................................1 Pretend We Are Lovely ......................................2 Grow Your Own .............................................3 Nature Poem ...............................................4 Junk .......................................................5 Plotto .....................................................6 How To Do Nothing With Nobody All Alone By Yourself ..........7 SELECT BACKLIST Ghosts of Bergen County ....................................8 Dryland ...................................................9 The Boatmaker .............................................10 Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself .........................11 Backlist ...................................................12 MEMOIR “Wise, brave and beautifully wrought, The Glass Eye signals the arrival of an The Glass Eye exceptionally fine new voice.” —ALEXANDRA STYRON, JEANNIE VANASCO author of Reading My Father * ABA INDIES INTRODUCE PICK * “In The Glass Eye, Jeannie Vanasco shows us why rules should be broken: because an elegy that pulses with immediacy, a fragment that is inextricable from a whole, a book that comments on its own writing can smash what you think you know into pieces, and expose a piece of truth so bright it might be your own broken heart, handed back to you.” —MELISSA FEBOS, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me he Glass Eye is Jeannie’s struggle to honor her fa- Tther, her larger-than-life hero but also the man who named her after his daughter from a previous marriage, a daughter who died. After his funeral, Jeannie spends the next decade in escalating mania, in and out of hospitals—increas- ingly obsessed with the other Jeanne. Obsession turns to investigation as Jeannie plumbs her childhood awareness of her dead half sibling and hunts for clues “Jeannie Vanasco’s The Glass Eye is into the mysterious circumstances of her death. It memoir as it ought to be, but so rarely becomes a puzzle Jeannie feels she must solve to bet- is: beautiful and painfully raw, but also ter understand herself and her father. restrained and lyrical. Vanasco is brilliant, Jeannie Vanasco pulls us into her unraveling and this book proves it.” with such intimacy that her insanity becomes palpable, even logical. A brilliant exploration of the —DARIN STRAUSS, human psyche, The Glass Eye deepens our definitions author of Half a Life of love, sanity, grief, and recovery. JEANNIE VANASCO has written for The Believer, Little Star Journal, NewYorker.com, Times Literary Supplement, Tin House, and elsewhere. Born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio, OCTOBER 2017 she now lives in Baltimore and Rights: World • Materials: Galley • 266 pages teaches at Towson University. 1 FICTION “In Reid’s debut novel, a family must navigate the secret currents of guilt, obsession, loss, and—most dangerous Pretend We of all—hope in this pitch-perfect Are Lovely examination of two Southern seasons in 1982. In prose that ambulates NOLEY REID between stark, hallucinatory, fuddled, and chewy according to the guiding character’s point of view, Reid masterfully denies her novel the impulse to solve its characters’ problems.” —Kirkus, Starred Review novel of glut and hunger, Noley Reid’s Pretend We A Are Lovely details a summer in the life of the Sobel family in 1980s Blacksburg, Virginia, seven years after the tragic and suspicious death of a son and sibling. Francie Sobel dresses in tennis skirts and ankle socks and weighs her grams of allotted carrots and iceberg lettuce. Semi-estranged husband Tate pre- fers a packed fridge and secret doughnuts. Daugh- ters Enid, ten, and Viv, thirteen, are subtler versions of their parents, measuring their summer vacation by meals had or meals skipped. But at summer’s end, secrets both old and new come to the surface and Francie disappears leaving the family teetering on the brink. Abandoned and uncalibrated without their “Reid transforms the story of a mentally ill mother’s regimental love and witnessing their father mother setting off the implosion of a tight- flounder in his new position of authority, the girls knit nuclear family into a sharp-edged must navigate their way through middle school, portrait of the ways in which each member find comfort in each other, and learn the difference of the family is shaped by the others, between food and nourishment. with no villains, only victims. A tense, NOLEY REID is author of So vivid, and sharp novel that captures the There! and In the Breeze of complex relationships between the Sobel Passing Things. Her stories have appeared in The South- family members, particularly particularly ern Review, Other Voices, between sisters Vivvy and Enid.” Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, and Meridian. —Publishers Weekly JULY 2017 Rights: World • Materials: Galley • 312 pages 2 NONFICTION Everything a home-grower needs to understand, cultivate, Grow Your Own and enjoy cannabis. by NICHOLE GRAF, MICAH SHERMAN, s prohibition wanes, and cannabis afi cionados DAVID STEIN, & LIZ CRAIN Aof all stripes come out from the shadows, the old stereotypes are fading. The benefi ts of cannabis are undeniable—medicinally, sure, but also for stress, for creativity, and for relaxation. And as any home- brewer, winemaker, or backyard gardener can tell you, there’s a particular joy in doing it yourself. Whether you’re new to cannabis and need to walk through the basics, or you’re an experienced grower looking to hone your techniques, Grow Your Own provides all the background and instruction you need to set up a grow space, raise your plants, and harvest your buds. It will teach you how to choose a strain based on its fl avors and effects, how to manage insects and molds without the use of pesticides, and how to mix just the right soil. But Grow Your Own will also give you a primer on the myriad ways to enjoy cannabis—from carving an apple pipe to punching up your favorite brownie recipe. With photography, visual aids, and illustrations from Allen Crawford (Whitman Illuminated), Grow Your Own makes cultivating cannabis as accessible as it is rewarding. from GROW YOUR OWN The relationship between humans and cannabis has been symbiotic, if not always easy. We’ve helped cannabis make its way across the globe, and have aided it in adapting to widely disparate environments. We’ve transported, bred, cultivated, and consumed it. In turn, cannabis has gifted us DAVID STEIN, NICHOLE GRAF , and MICAH SHERMAN with its rich resins and fi brous plant matter. We’ve are owners of Raven, a recreational cannabis company used it in medicine. We’ve used it for cloth and in Washington state that prides itself on producing rope. We’ve used it religiously, ceremoniously, environmentally and socially responsible organic nutritionally, and—last but not least—we’ve cannabis and cannabis-infused products, and enjoyed it recreationally. guaranteeing good vibes. LIZ CRAIN is the author of Toro Bravo: Stories. Recipes. No Bull and A Food Lover’s Guide to Portland. SEPTEMBER 2017 Rights: World • Materials: PDF • 224 pages 3 POETRY A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can’t bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to Nature Poem reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, by TOMMY PICO manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet. ature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, NAmerican Indian (or NDN) poet—who can’t bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the ex- ercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night sky. He’d slap a tree across the face. He’d rather write a mountain of hashtag punchlines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; he’d rather write odes to Aretha Franklin and Hole. While he’s adamant—bratty, even—about his distaste for the word “natural,” over the course of the book we see him confronting the assimilationist, historical, colonial-white ideas that collude NDN people with nature. The closer his people were identified with the “natural world,” he figures, the easier it was to mow them down like the underbrush. But Teebs gradually learns how to interpret constellations through his own lens, along with human nature, sexuality, language, music, and Twitter. Even while “Pico centers his second book-length he reckons with manifest destiny and genocide and poem on the trap of conforming to identity centuries of disenfranchisement, he learns how to stereotypes as he ponders his reluctance have faith in his own voice. to write about nature as a Native TOMMY “TEEBS” PICO is the American . In making the subliminal author of IRL (Birds LLC, 2016), Junk (forthcoming from Tin overt, Pico reclaims power by calling out House Books) and the zine microaggressions and drawing attention to series Hey, Teebs. He was the himself in the face of oppression.” founder and editor in chief of birdsong, an antiracist/queer- —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review positive collective, small press, and zine that published art and writing from 2008–2013. He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, 2013 Lamb- da Literary fellow in poetry, and a 2016 Tin House summer poetry scholar. Originally from the Viejas Indian reserva- tion of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn where he co-curates the reading series Poets With Attitude MAY 2017 (PWA) with Morgan Parker, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub. Rights: World • Materials: Finished Book • 136 pages 4 @heyteebs POETRY MORE PRAISE FOR NATURE POEM Junk “A thrilling punk rock epic that is by TOMMY PICO a tour of all we know and can’t admit to. Pico is a poet of canny instincts, his lyric is somehow so casual and so so serious at the same time. He is determined to blow your mind apart, and . you should let him.” —ALEXANDER CHEE “Mix of hey that’s poetry (uncanny resistance) with hey that’s a text and smashing goals & fulfilling them along the way & saying my parents fulfilled them.
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