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TIN HOUSE WINTER 2021 CATALOG winter 2021 catalog Contents The House on Vesper Sands..................................................1 The Magical Language of Others............................................2 Bride of the Sea.............................................................3 Famous Men Who Never Lived................................................4 My Autobiography of Carson McCullers........................................5 How to Order the Universe....................................................6 Justine.....................................................................7 The Whispering House.......................................................8 The Perseverance............................................................9 The Last Taxi Driver..........................................................10 The Index of Self-Destructive Acts.............................................11 White Magic................................................................12 Contact.and.Distribution.Information..........................................13 1 FICTION “Fantastically enjoyable——a nineteenth- century supernatural procedural mystery that is also an impassioned The House on meditation on love and duty, loss, Vesper Sands suffering, power, and injustice. I a novel by PARAIC O’DONNELL absolutely loved it.” —— HELEN MACDONALD, author of H Is for Hawk “The most vivid and compelling portrait of late Victorian London since The Crimson Petal and the White.” —— SARAH PERRY, author of Melmoth ondon, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, Lsnowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world of Paraic O’Donnell’s Victorian-inspired mys- tery, the story of a city cloaked in shadow, but burning with questions: why does the seamstress jump from the window? Why is a cryptic message stitched into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar circumstances? On the case is Gideon Bliss, a young Cambridge dropout who is in love with one of the missing girls, and his partner Inspector Cutter, a detec- US $26.95 · Hardcover · CAN $35.95 · FICTION tive as sharp and committed to his work as he is ISBN 978-1-951142-24-7 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 408 pages wryly hilarious. There’s also Octavia Hillingdon, a ON SALE JANUARY 12, 2021 young reporter determined to tell stories that feel important despite her employer’s preference that NATIONAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN she write a women’s society column. As Inspector Cutter peels back the mystery layer by layer, he ∙ National media campaign, including TV, radio, and online interviews leads them all, at last, to the secrets that lie hidden at the house on Vesper Sands. ∙ National print campaign, including reviews, features, and original essays PARAIC O’DONNELL’s ∙ Major prepublication buzz campaign: featured author at first novel, The Maker of virtual regional trade shows, trade advertising, mas- Swans, was shortlisted for sive Goodreads giveaways, and early galley mailings to an Irish Book Award. The industry big-mouths and social media influencers. House on Vesper Sands ∙ Positioning for January “Best of the Month” selections, was a Best Book of the Year including Indie Next and Library Reads. in The Observer and The Guardian. Paraic lives in National print and digital advertising campaign, target- ∙ Wicklow, Ireland with his wife and two children, and can ing readers of historical fiction and detective thrillers usually be found in the garden. Comprehensive online and social media outreach ∙ paraicodonnell.com COMING IN PAPERBACK “A tremendous gift. The Magical Language of Others is a wonder.” —— SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE The Magical he Magical Language of Others is a powerful and Language of Others T aching love story in letters, from mother a memoir by E. J. KOH to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Koh’s parents return to South Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in California. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself abandoned and adrift in a world made strange by her mother’s absence. Her mother writes letters, in Korean, over the years seeking forgiveness and love—letters Eun Ji can- not fully understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box. As Eun Ji translates the letters, she looks to history—her grandmother Jun’s years as a lovesick wife in Daejeon, the horrors her grand- mother Kumiko witnessed during the Jeju Island Massacre—and to poetry, as well as her own lived experience to answer questions inside all of us. Where do the stories of our mothers and grandmothers end and ours begin? How do we find words—in Korean, Japanese, English, or any language—to articulate the profound ways that distance can shape love? US $16.95 · Paperback · CAN $22.95 · NONFICTION The Magical Language of Others weaves a profound ISBN 978-1-951142-27-8 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 224 pages tale of hard-won selfhood and our deep bonds to ON SALE JANUARY 19, 2021 family, place, and language, introducing—in Eun Ji Koh—a singular, incandescent voice. NATIONAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN E. J. KOH is the author National media campaign, including “New in Paper- A ∙ of the poetry collection back” roundups Lesser Love, winner of the Pleiades Press Editors Prize, ∙ Ongoing national author appearances and co-translator with Marci ∙ Extensive book club promotion, including Goodreads Calabretta Cancio-Bello of Yi Comprehensive social media promotion Won's The World's Lightest ∙ Motorcycle, forthcoming from ∙ Includes bound-in discussion guide Zephyr Press. Her poems, translations, and stories have ∙ Academic outreach for course adoption appeared in Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and World Literature Today, among others. She earned her MFA in Literary Translation and Creative Writing from Columbia University, and is completing the PhD program at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is a recipient of MacDowell and Kundiman fellowships. thisisejkoh.com 3 FICTION SPANNING FOUR DECADES AND TWO CONTINENTS, EMAN QUOTAH Bride of the Sea ILLUMINATES A FAMILY FRAUGHT WITH a novel by EMAN QUOTAH SECRETS AND ESTRANGEMENTS AGAINST THE BACKDROPS OF THE GULF WAR, 9/11, AND A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD. “This lovely novel traces the life of a young woman caught between parents and cultures, from Saudi Arabia to America, and brings both worlds to life in all their complexities.” —— SHILPI SOMAYA GOWDA, author of The Shape of Family uring a snowy Cleveland February, Dnewlywed university students Muneer and Saeedah are expecting their first child, and he is harboring a secret: the word “divorce” is whispering in his ear. Soon, their marriage will end, and Muneer will return to Saudi Arabia, while Saeedah remains in Cleveland with their daughter, Hanadi. Consumed by a growing fear, Saeedah disappears with the little girl, leaving US $16.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $22.95 · FICTION Muneer to desperately search for his daughter for ISBN 978-1-951142-45-2 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 312 pages years. The repercussions of the abduction ripple ON SALE JANUARY 26, 2021 outward, not only changing the lives of Hanadi and her parents, but also their interwoven family NATIONAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN and friends—those who must choose sides and hide their own deeply guarded secrets. National media campaign, including TV, radio, and ∙ Eman Quotah’s Bride of the Sea is a spellbinding online interviews debut of colliding cultures, immigration, and reli- National print campaign, including reviews, features, ∙ gion; an intimate portrait of loss and healing; and, and original essays ultimately, a testament to what connects us all—love. ∙ Book club push, including featured title for Book- Browse, Reading Group Choices, and other top-tier EMAN QUOTAH grew book club sites up in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, and Cleveland, Ohio. Her Massive galley giveaway on Goodreads, outreach to ∙ The influencers, retail and library marketing writing has appeared in Washington Post, USA Today, ∙ Comprehensive online and social media outreach The Toast, The Establishment, ∙ Positioning for Indies Introduce, Indie Next, and Library Book Riot, and other publica- Reads tions. She lives with her family in Washington, DC. ∙ Includes bound-in discussion guide emanquotah.com COMING IN PAPERBACK “A beautifully written and conceived novel, and one whose message of empathy across lines of difference Famous Men Who is much needed.” Never Lived —— TOR.COM a novel by K CHESS “Impossible to forget.” —— BOOK RIOT herever Hel looks, New York City is W both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States—an alternate timeline, somewhere across the multiverse—she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her, the politics and art unrecognizable. While others, like her partner, Vikram, attempt to assimilate, Hel refuses to reclaim her former career or cre- ate a new life. Instead, she obsessively rereads Vikram’s copy of The Pyronauts—a science fiction masterwork in her world that now only exists as a single flimsy paperback—and becomes deter- mined to create a museum dedicated to preserv- ing the remaining artifacts and memories of her US $16.95 · Paperback · CAN $22.95 · FICTION vanished culture. ISBN 978-1-951142-28-5 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 328 pages But the refugees are unwelcome and Hel’s ON SALE FEBRUARY 2, 2021 efforts are met with either indifference or hostil- ity. And when the only copy of The Pyronauts