TIN HOUSE WINTER 2018 CATALOG winter 2018 catalog Contents Freebird....................................................................2 Swimming Lessons..........................................................4 The Möbius Strip Club of Grief................................................6 The Adulterants.............................................................8 The Changeling.............................................................10 Tin House Magazine.........................................................12 Contact.and.Distribution.Information..........................................14 FICTION “Freebird.is.such.a.timely.book,. considering.the.current.deep.divisions. Freebird between.right.and.left..A.new.classic. a novel by JON RAYMOND for.the.collapsing.political. landscape.of.America.” —KIM.GORDON,. author.of.Girl in a Band he Singers, an all-American family Tin the California style, are about to lose everything. Anne is a bureaucrat in the Los Angeles Office of Sustainability whose ideals are compromised by a proposal from a venture capitalist seeking to privatize the city’s wastewater. Her brother, Ben, a former Navy SEAL, returns from Afghanistan disillusioned and struggling with PTSD, and starts down a path toward a radical act of violence. And Anne’s teenage son, Aaron, can’t decide if he should go to college or pitch it all and hit the road. They all live inside the long shadow of the Singer patriarch Grandpa Sam, whose untold experience of the Holocaust shapes his family’s moral character to the core. Jon Raymond, screenwriter of the acclaimed JANUARY films Meek’s Cutoff and Night Moves, combines these narrative threads into a hard-driving story of $15.95.·.Trade.Paper.·.5".x.7 3/ ". 4 one family’s moral crisis. In Freebird, Raymond ISBN:.978-1-941040-83-9 ·.eBook:.978-1-941040-84-3 delivers a brilliant, searching novel about death Previous.Hardcover.Edition: 978-1-555977-60-3 and politics in America today, revealing how the Rights:.North.American fates of our families are irrevocably tied to the currents of history. PROMOTION & PUBLICITY JON RAYMOND is the •. “New.in.Paperback”.promotion author of two novels, Rain •. National.and.regional.interview.campaign Dragon and The Half- Life, and the short-story •. Promotion.via.e-newsletter.and.website collection Livability. His •. Book.club.outreach work has appeared in Tin House, The Village Voice, •. Social.media.campaign Bookforum, and other places. He lives in Portland, Oregon. 2 “[Freebird is] the rare work of fiction that feels “Jon Raymond’s wonderful new book Freebird more timely with each passing moment.” poetically wrestles with the big and the small: how globalization and international conflicts —SEATTLE WEEKLY reconcile with the personal; how the amorality of “Thanks to Raymond’s loose, masterful style, war affects individual psyches; how impulsive Freebird is an arm wrestling match between post adolescence mirrors impulsive old age. And hilarity and heartbreak.” the undercurrent of this increasingly suspenseful story is a fascinating discussion of environmental —INTERVIEW mutilation, at once a tangle of benign bureaucracy and calculated avarice, which Raymond tackles “A binge-worthy novel, lightly satirical with equal parts sensitivity and expertise.” and compulsively readable.” —JESSE EISENBERG, author of —SHELF AWARENESS Bream Gives Me Hiccups: and Other Stories “Raymond rotates between Anne’s, Ben’s and Aaron’s “Freebird is an intelligent and absorbing multi- points of view, his gallows humor and psychological generational story of an American family, written acuity informing the action of every character. with great sensitivity, insight, and verve.” His descriptive powers. pull you into a kind of sensuous ambiguity that’s as seductive for the —PATRICK DEWITT, author of The Sisters Brothers reader as it is for his characters. The biggest impression the book leaves is of a novelist “Beautifully written, precisely observed, and reaching the height of his powers.” morally engaged. In the Singer family, Jon Raymond has composed a kind of generational fugue on —THE OREGONIAN the theme of how to do some good in a grim world—how to fight back against evil without “The arrival of Freebird requires that you set compounding that evil.” aside all New Year plans and dive in without delay. A darkly relatable amorality tale —JONATHAN DEE, author of A Thousand Pardons from a skilled storyteller.” “No one writes sentences so graceful and —PORTLAND MONTHLY characters so achingly real as Jon Raymond. Sometimes sad, sometimes hilarious, oftentimes “An original, provocative, and intriguing story. at the same moment, Freebird is the gripping story A powerful and tender family drama.” of a dysfunctional family through which we better —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY understand these dysfunctional times.” —BENJAMIN PERCY, author of Thrill Me “Raymond . [explores] the qualities that make us human and the strong family bonds that hold us together.” —BOOKLIST 3 “As she did in her first novel, Our Endless Numbered “Playing out the various scenarios is almost like a Days (2015), Fuller proves to be a master of ‘choose your own adventure’ story for adults. For temporal space, taking readers through flashbacks me, Ingrid’s story, voice, and perspective, makes for and epistolary chapters at a pace timed to create a haunting, motivating, and fantastic read.” wonder and suspense. It’s her beautiful prose, —Steph Opitz, BOOK OF THE MONTH though, that rounds this one out, as she delves CLUB SELECTION deeply to examine the legacies of a flawed and passionate marriage.” “Saving the best for last with revelations and —Booklist, STARRED REVIEW surprises, Fuller’s well-crafted, intricate tale captures the strengths and shortcomings of “Ingrid is a brave but floundering heroine who puts ordinary people to show how healing is possible down ‘all the things [she hasn’t] been able to say by confronting the darkest places.” in person’ in her letters, resulting in a portrait so —Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW intimate, you feel as if you’ve read a novel written on the secret walls of her very mind. A deeply “Like Fuller’s stunning debut, Swimming Lessons moving read, with a mystery that keeps you is a story suffused with the poignancy of turning pages.” miscommunication between people who love each —Oprah.com, EDITOR’S PICK other, of the things we can never really know.” —The Guardian “As in her gorgeously harrowing Our Endless Numbered Days, Claire Fuller returns to the “[Swimming Lessons] is the story of a passionate territory of a mother’s disappearance and a father’s but troubled marriage, of mothers and daughters, lies with bewitching and page-turning results. If of letters hidden in books. The writing is efficient anything, Swimming Lessons is an even more and impactful. This would be a perfect book club complex puzzle box of a book, excavating darkly pick, as it’s a short novel that says a lot, and there’s knotted family secrets, intricately cruel betrayals plenty to unpack.” and layers of ambiguous loss. Fuller is so clear eyed, poised and psychologically shrewd in the unfolding —Book Riot of her tale, you will be kept guessing until the final penetrating sentence. An extraordinarily smart “Swimming Lessons is so smoothly, beautifully and satisfying read.” written, and the human failures here are heartbreaking.” —Paula McLain, AUTHOR OF THE PARIS WIFE —David Vann, AUTHOR OF AQUARIUM “Fuller’s tale is eloquent, harrowing, raw . [this] “This is a biting, soaring novel.” mystery is sure to keep readers inching off their seats.” —Ramona Ausubel, AUTHOR OF NO ONE —Kirkus IS HERE EXCEPT ALL OF US FICTION *.Book.of.the.Month.Club.Pick.* *.Amazon.Best.Book.of.the.Month*. *.Indie.Next.Pick.* Swimming An.exhilarating.literary.mystery,. Lessons Swimming Lessons.keeps.readers. a novel by CLAIRE FULLER guessing.until.the.final.page. isenchanted by the life in which she’s Dfound herself, Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their passionate and troubled marriage. She hides them, unread, in the thousands of books Gil has collected over the years. Then she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her dilapidated house by the sea, her husband, and her two young daughters, Flora and Nan. Twelve years later, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window, but he’s getting older and his unlikely sighting is chalked up to senility. Flora, who has never believed Ingrid drowned, returns home to care for her father and investigate her mother’s disappearance. But what Flora doesn’t realize is that the answers to her questions are hidden in the books that surround her. Scandalous and smart, Swimming Lessons holds the Coleman family up to the light, exposing the mysterious truths of a turbulent marriage and the dangerous JANUARY fault lines that remain. 1 1 $15.95.·.Trade.Paper.·.5 /2”.x.8 /2” CLAIRE FULLER’s debut ISBN:.978-1-941040-93-5 ·.eBook:.978-1-941040-52-2 novel, Our Endless Previous.Hardcover.Edition: 978-1-941040-51-5 Numbered Days, won the Rights:.North.American Desmond Elliott Prize in the UK, was a finalist for the ABA (American PROMOTION & PUBLICITY Booksellers Association) 2016 Indies Choice •. “New.in.Paperback”.promotion Award, and was chosen as an Indie Next pick and a •. Book.club.outreach Goodreads Debut Spotlight. She lives in Winchester, England with her husband and has two grown-up •. Targeted.email.marketing children. •. Social.media.campaign 5 POETRY In.the.much-anticipated.follow-up. to.Someone Else’s Wedding Vows,. The Möbius Strip Stone.marries.the.personal.and.the. political,.using.her.ferocious.wit. Club of Grief and.deep.sensitivity.to.look. poems by BIANCA STONE both.inward.and.outward.. he Möbius Strip Club of Grief is a collection T of poems that take place in a burlesque purgatory where the living pay—dearly, with both money and conscience—to watch the dead perform scandalous acts otherwise unseen: “$20 for five minutes; I’ll hold your hand in my own,” one ghost says. “I’ll tell you / you were good to me.” With a nod to Dante, Stone positions herself as the living poet passing through and observing the land of the dead.