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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 mystery, 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 grandmother 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, Massive galley giveaway on Goodreads, outreach to and Cleveland, Ohio. Her ∙ 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 create 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 determined 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 goes NATIONAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN missing, Hel must decide how far she is willing National media campaign, including “New in Paper- to go to recover it and finally face her own anger, ∙ back” roundups guilt, and grief over what she has truly lost. ∙ Extensive book club promotion, including Goodreads ∙ Comprehensive social media promotion, including is the author of K CHESS targeted outreach to science fiction readers short stories honored by the Nelson Algren Literary ∙ Includes bound-in discussion guide and author Award and the Pushcart interview Prize. She was a W. K. Rose Fellow, earned an MFA from Southern Illinois University, and currently teaches at GrubStreet. She lives with her wife in Providence, Rhode Island. kchesswriter.com COMING IN PAPERBACK “Shapland’s book is the kind of state-of- the-form reckoning that makes one wish My Autobiography of there were more like it.” Carson McCullers —— THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW a memoir by JENN SHAPLAND “An unpretentious, moving record of love at the margins.” —— THE NEW YORKER

hile working as an intern in the archives W at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson McCullers and a woman named Annemarie— letters that are tender, intimate, and unabashed in their feelings. Shapland recognizes herself in the letters’ language—but does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her. And so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the full narrative and language of McCullers’s life: she wades through therapy transcripts; she stays at McCullers’s childhood home, where she lounges in her bathtub and eats delivery pizza; she relives McCullers’s days at her beloved Yaddo. The results reveal something entirely new not only about this one remarkable, walleyed life, but about the way we tell queer US $16.95 · Paperback · CAN $22.95 · NONFICTION ISBN 978-1-951142-29-2 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 296 pages love stories. ON SALE FEBRUARY 9, 2021 In genre-defying vignettes, Jenn Shapland interweaves her own story with Carson McCullers’s to create a vital new portrait of one NATIONAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN of America’s most beloved writers, and shows us how the writers we love and the stories we tell ∙ National media campaign, including “New in Paper- back” roundups about ourselves make us who we are. ∙ Ongoing national author appearances JENN SHAPLAND is a Extensive book club promotion, including Goodreads ∙ writer living in New Mexico. ∙ Includes bound-in discussion guide and author inter- Her nonfiction has been view published in O, The Oprah Magazine, Tin House, ∙ Academic outreach for course adoption and First Year Outside Experience programs online, and else- where. She won the 2019 ∙ Outreach and promotion to the LGBTQ community Rabkin Foundation Award for art journalism, and her essay “Finders, Keepers” won a 2017 Pushcart Prize. She has a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin. jennshapland.com FICTION 6 A RICHLY IMAGINATIVE DEBUT AND A RARE WORK OF MAGIC AND ORIGINALITY, HOW TO ORDER THE How to Order UNIVERSE INTRODUCES AN EXCITING the Universe NEW VOICE IN MARÍA JOSÉ FERRADA. a novel by MARÍA JOSÉ FERRADA translated by ELIZABETH BRYER “Complex in its simplicity, and full of life and mystery. I wanted to hold it close, and with great care.”

—— FRANCES DE PONTES PEEBLES or seven-year-old M, the world is guided by Fa firm set of principles, based on her father D’s life as a traveling salesman. Enchanted by her father’s trade, M convinces him to take her along on his routes, selling hardware supplies against the backdrop of Pinochet-era Chile. As father and daughter trek from town to town in their old Renault, M’s memories and thoughts become tied to a language of rural commerce, philosophy, the cosmos, hardware products, and ghosts. M, in her innocence, barely notices the rising tensions and precarious nature of their work until she and her father connect with an enigmatic photographer, E, whose presence threatens to upend the unusual life they’ve created. US $15.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $21.95 · FICTION At once nostalgic, dangerous, sharply funny, ISBN 978-1-951142-30-8 · 5" x 7 ¼" · 180 pages and full of delight and wonder, How to Order the ON SALE FEBRUARY 16, 2021 Universe captures a vanishing way of life and a father-daughter relationship on the brink of ir- NATIONAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN reversible change. ∙ National media campaign, including TV, radio, and MARÍA JOSÉ FERRADA online interviews is an award-winning author National print campaign, including reviews and features whose debut, How to Order ∙ the Universe, is being trans- ∙ Comprehensive social media campaign lated into Italian, Brazilian ∙ Goodreads giveaway and galley mailings to industry Portuguese, Danish, and big-mouths and independent bookstores German, as well as published all over the Spanish- ∙ Includes bound-in discussion guide speaking world. Ferrada has won numerous literary prizes, and is the three-time winner of the Chilean Ministry of Culture Award. She lives in Santiago, Chile. 7 FICTION “It shook me, and it made me see.” Justine —— VICTOR LAVALLE a novel by FORSYTH HARMON “Pulsingly alive.” —— KRISTEN RADTKE

“Exacting illustrations and effortless prose.” —— CATHERINE LACEY

debut illustrated novel, Justine is a sharp, Aintimate portrayal of girlhood on the edge of adulthood, and the thin line between friend- ship and obsession. When Long Island teenager Ali visits the local Stop & Shop, she finds herself powerfully drawn to a cashier, the seductive and troubled Justine, who’s so tall and thin she looks almost two-dimensional. Intrigued, Ali applies for a job on the spot. During the ensuing sizzling weeks of summer 1999, Justine takes Ali under her wing, and Ali’s fixation on Justine grows. But even as Ali reshapes herself in Justine’s image—unsure of whether she wants to be with her or be her—their inability to truly connect leads to a series of events that spiral US $19.95 · Hardcover · CAN $25.95 · FICTION ISBN 978-1-951142-33-9 · 5" x 7 ¾" · 152 pages from superficial to seismic. ON SALE MARCH 2, 2021 Justine explores the sinister side of image- obsessed American girlhood. NATIONAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN

∙ Prepublication buzz campaign, including author tour, FORSYTH HARMON is galley giveaways, regional trade show appearances, and the illustrator of The Art massive retail mailing of the Affair by Catherine ∙ National media campaign, including radio and online Lacey, and has collabo- interviews rated with writers Alexander Chee, Hermione Hoby, Comprehensive social media campaign, including the ∙ Sanaë Lemoine, and Leslie author’s online platforms Jamison. She is also the ∙ Author events in select cities illustrator of the forthcoming essay collection Girlhood by Melissa Febos. Forsyth’s work has been featured in The Believer, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Awl. She received an MFA from Columbia University and currently lives in New York. forsythharmon.com FICTION 8 FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE ORPHAN OF SALT WINDS The Whispering THE WHISPERING HOUSE TRADES IN SECRETS: OF A SON HAUNTED BY HIS House a novel by ELIZABETH BROOKS FAMILY’S UNSETTLING PAST, AND A YOUNG WOMAN UNCOVERING THE TRUTH ABOUT HER SISTER’S LAST DAYS.

“Will keep you up all night. . . . A gothic mystery like no other.” —— RENE DENFELD

reya Lyell is struggling to move on from her Fsister Stella’s suicide five years ago. Visiting the bewitching Byrne Hall, only a few miles from the scene of the tragedy, she discovers a portrait of Stella—a portrait she had no idea existed, in a house Stella never set foot in. Or so she thought. Driven to find out more about her sister’s secrets, Freya is drawn into the world of Byrne Hall and its owners: charismatic artist Cory and his sinister, watchful mother. But as Freya lingers in this mysterious, centuries-old house, her relationship with Cory crosses the line into obsession and US $16.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $22.95 · FICTION ISBN 978-1-951142-36-0 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 392 pages the darkness behind the locked doors of Byrne ON SALE MARCH 16, 2021 Hall threatens to spill out. In prose as lush and atmospheric as Byrne Hall itself, Elizabeth Brooks weaves a simmering, propulsive tale of art, sister- NATIONAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN hood, and all-consuming love: the ways it can lead ∙ National media campaign, including TV, radio, and us toward tenderness, nostalgia, and longing, as online interviews well as shocking acts of violence. ∙ National print campaign, including reviews, features, and original essays ∙ Book club promotions with BookBrowse, Book Move- ment, Reading Group Guides, and other top book club ELIZABETH BROOKS is sites. The the author of the novel Early galleys and special book-specific packages for Orphan of Salt Winds ∙ . She bloggers and influencers graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in ∙ Comprehensive social media and digital ad campaign Classics and lives on the Isle of Man with her husband and two children. 9 POETRY WINNER OF THE TED HUGHES AWARD A POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR AT The Perseverance THE GUARDIAN, THE SUNDAY TIMES, poetry by RAYMOND ANTROBUS AND POETRY SCHOOL

“Magic.” —— KAVEH AKBAR “Raymond Antrobus’s compelling debut, The Perseverance, confronts deeply rooted prejudice against deaf people.” —— THE GUARDIAN

n the wake of his father’s death, the speaker Iin Raymond Antrobus’s The Perseverance travels to Gaudí’s cathedral in Barcelona. Ruminating on the idea of silence and sound, he wonders whether acoustics really can bring us closer to God. “Even though,” he says, “I have not heard / the golden decibel of angels, / I have been living in a noiseless / palace where the doorbell is pulsating / light and I am able to answer.” So begins a stunning exami- nation of a d/Deaf experience alongside medita- tions on loss, grief, education, and language, both spoken and signed. With a global scope and a deep intimacy, Antrobus draws on family and historical figures to create a chorus of voices: on the page, in US $16.95 · Trade Paperback · CAN $22.95 · POETRY our mouths, in our hands and ears. ISBN 978-1-951142-42-1 · 6" x 9" · 88 pages The Perseverance is a book about communica- ON SALE MARCH 30, 2021 tion and connection, about cultural inheritance, about identity in a hearing world that takes NATIONAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN everything for granted, about the dangers we may find—both individually and as a society—if we fail ∙ National media campaign, including TV, radio, and online interviews to understand each other.

∙ National print campaign, including reviews, features, RAYMOND ANTROBUS and original essays was born in London to ∙ Inclusion in Tin House Linebreakers promotion an English mother and Jamaican father. He was ∙ Digital ad campaign targeting top literary and poetry sites awarded the 2017 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, judged by ∙ Comprehensive social media campaign Ocean Vuong, as well as the 2019 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. His debut collection, The Perseverance, won the Ted Hughes Award, the Rathbones Folio Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award. Raymond currently lives in London. raymondantrobus.com “Durkee is a true original—a wise and COMING IN PAPERBACK wildly talented writer who knows something profound about that special The Last Taxi strain of American darkness that comes out of blended paucity, materialism, Driver and addiction—but also, in the joy and a novel by LEE DURKEE honesty and wit of the prose, he offers a way out. I loved this book and felt jangled and inspired and changed by it.” —— GEORGE SAUNDERS

ritten by a former cabbie, The Last Taxi WDriver is a darkly comic novel about a middle-aged hackie’s daylong descent into mad- ness, heartbreak, and murder. Lou—a lapsed novelist and UFO aficionado—drives 70-hour weeks for a ramshackle taxi company that oper- ates on the outskirts of a north Mississippi col- lege town among the trailer parks and housing projects. With Uber moving into town and his way of life fast vanishing, his girlfriend moving out on him, and his archenemy-dispatcher suddenly returning to the state on the lam, Lou must keep driving his way through a bedlam shift even when that means aiding and abetting the host of criminal misfits haunting the back seat of his Town Car. Shedding nuts and bolts at every US $16.95 · Paperback · CAN $22.95 · FICTION ISBN 978-1-951142-68-1 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 250 pages turn, The Last Taxi Driver careens through the ON SALE APRIL 6, 2021 highways and back roads, from Mississippi to Memphis and back, as Lou becomes increasingly somnambulant and his fares increasingly eccen- tric. Equal parts Bukowski and Portis, Durkee’s NATIONAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN novel is an homage to a dying American industry. ∙ National media campaign, including “New in Paper- LEE DURKEE is the author back” roundups of the novel Rides of the ∙ Ongoing national author appearances Midway. His stories and ∙ Extensive book club promotion, including Goodreads essays have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Sun, Best of the Oxford American, Zoetrope: All-Story, Tin House, New England Review, and Mississippi Noir. In 2021, his memoir Stalking Shakespeare will chronicle his decade-long obsession with trying to find lost portraits of William Shakespeare. A former cab driver, he lives in North Mississippi. leedurkee.com COMING IN PAPERBACK “The Index is bound to become a must- The Index of Self- read of our time.” LISA TADDEO, author of Three Women Destructive Acts — a novel by CHRISTOPHER BEHA he day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York T to write for the Interviewer, a street-corner preacher declares that the world is coming to an end. A data journalist and recent media celeb- rity—he correctly forecast every outcome of the 2008 election—Sam’s familiar with predicting the future. But when projection meets reality, things turn complicated. Sam’s assigned to profile dis- graced political columnist Frank Doyle, a liberal lion turned neocon Iraq-war apologist and author of the great works of baseball lore that had first sparked Sam’s love of the game (books he now views as childish mythmaking to be crushed with his empirical hammer). But Doyle is convincing in person, charming and intelligent. Sam takes a liking to him, and to his daughter, Margo, with whom Sam becomes involved—just as his wife, Lucy, arrives from Wisconsin. It’s a precarious moment for the Doyle family. Kit, the matriarch, lost her investment bank to the financial crisis; Eddie, their son, hasn’t been the same since his second combat tour in Iraq; US $17.95 · Paperback · CAN $23.95 · FICTION ISBN 978-1-951142-69-8 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 528 pages Eddie’s best friend from childhood, the fantas- ON SALE APRIL 13, 2021 tically successful hedge funder Justin Price, is starting to see cracks in his spotless public image. So while the end of the world might not be ar- NATIONAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN riving, Beha’s characters appear to be headed for apocalypses of their own making. ∙ National media campaign, including “New in Paper- back” roundups CHRISTOPHER BEHA ∙ Ongoing national author appearances is the editor of Harper’s ∙ Extensive book club promotion, including Goodreads Magazine. He is the author of two previous novels, What Happened to Sophie Wilder and Arts & Entertainments, and a memoir, The Whole Five Feet. His writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and London Review of Books. He lives in New York City with his wife and family. christopherbeha.com “Elissa Washuta is exactly the writer NONFICTION 12 we need right now . . . her scrutiny is a fearless tool, every subject whittled to its truest form.” White Magic essays by ELISSA WASHUTA —— MELISSA FEBOS, author of Girlhood

hroughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been Tsurrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, “starter witch kits” of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic. Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and heavy-duty drug treatment for a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, she felt drawn to the real spirits and powers her dispossessed and discarded ancestors knew, while she undertook necessary work to find love and meaning. In this collection of intertwined essays, she writes about land, heartbreak, and colonization, about life without the escape hatch of intoxication, and about how she became a powerful witch. She interlaces stories from her forebears with cultural artifacts from her own life—Twin Peaks, the Oregon Trail II video game, a Claymation Satan, a YouTube video of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham—to explore questions of cultural inheritance and the US $26.95 · Hardcover · CAN $35.95 · NONFICTION particular danger, as a Native woman, of relaxing ISBN 978-1-951142-39-1 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 432 pages into romantic love under colonial rule. ON SALE APRIL 27,2021 Bracingly honest and powerfully affecting, White Magic establishes Elissa Washuta as one of our best living essayists. NATIONAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN ELISSA WASHUTA is a Select author appearances member of the Cowlitz Indian ∙ Tribe and a nonfiction writer. ∙ Major prepublication campaign: Winter Institute She is the author of Starvation featured author, author profiles, trade advertising, mas- Mode and My Body Is a Book sive Goodreads giveaways, and early galley giveaways of Rules, named a finalist to industry big-mouths and social media influencers for the Washington State ∙ National media campaign, including TV, radio, and Book Award. With Theresa online interviews Warburton, she is co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary ∙ National print campaign, including reviews, features, Writers. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at and original essays the Ohio State University. ∙ Positioning for "Best of the Month" selections, includ- washuta.net ing Indie Next and Library Reads Tin House Australia and New Zealand: People’s Republic of China: 2617 NW Thurman Street John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. Everest International Publishing Services Portland, OR 97210 42 McDougall Street Wei Zhao, Director (503) 473 8663 Milton, Queensland 4064 2-1-503 UHN Intl [email protected] Tel (61) 7 3859 9755 2 Xi Ba He Dong Li www.tinhouse.com Fax (61) 7 3859 9715 Beijing 100028 email: [email protected] Tel (86) 10 5130 1051 Publisher: Craig Popelars Fax (86) 10 5130 1052 email: [email protected] Japan: Mobile (86) 13 6830 18054 Sales & Marketing: Nanci McCloskey Rockbook – Gilles Fauveau email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Exprime 5F 10-10 Ichibancho Publicity: Molly Templeton Chiyoda-ku Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei: email: [email protected] 102-0082 Tokyo Pansing Distribution Pte Ltd. Japan 1 New Industrial Road Distributed in the United States by Tel (81) 90 9700 2481 Times Centre W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Tel (81) 90 3962 4650 Singapore 536196 500 Fifth Ave email: [email protected] Tel (65) 6319 9939 New York, NY 10110 email: [email protected] Fax (65) 6459 4930 Tel (212) 354 5500 email: [email protected] Order Dept. Tel (800) 233 4830 Taiwan and Korea: Order Dept. Fax (800) 458 6515 B. K. Norton Ltd. Mexico, South and Central America, Customer Service (800) 233 4830 5F, 60 Roosevelt Road the Caribbean: Special Sales (800) 286 4044 Sec. 4, Taipei 100 US PubRep, Inc. www.wwnorton.com Taiwan 5000 Jasmine Drive Tel (886) 2 6632 0088 Rockville, MD 20853 Canada: Fax (886) 2 2368 8929 USA Penguin Random House Canada email: [email protected] Tel (301) 838 9276 320 Front Street West, Suite 1400 Fax (301) 838 9278 Toronto, Ontario M5V 3B6 Hong Kong and Macau: email: [email protected] Tel (888) 523 9292 Transglobal Publishers Service Ltd. Fax (888) 562 9924 27/F Unit E Shield Industrial Centre email: customerservicescanada@ 84/92 Chai Wan Kok Street penguinrandomhouse.com Tsuen Wan, N.T. Hong Kong United Kingdom, Ireland, Europe, Tel (852) 2413 5322 the Middle East, Africa: Fax (852) 2413 7049 W. W. Norton & Company Ltd. email: [email protected] 15 Carlisle Street London W1D 3BS United Kingdom Tel (44) 20 7323 1579 Fax (44) 20 7436 4553 email: [email protected]

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