I
am always astonished by the way Kevin Wilson brings out the unique humanity in
his characters. None of his books rely on plot twists yet they are always
surprising.
Now Is Not the Time to Panic is about creativity and art,
friendship and growth, love and secrets. Two friends make an artsy poster. That
poster captures the imagination of an entire town. And even as adults, they are
still dealing with the fallout. It sounds simple, but this story is so much
more. Wilson writes complex weirdos in a way that makes us realize that we’re
all weirdos in our own (weird) little ways.
Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Kirkus Reviews * USA Today * Entertainment Weekly * Garden & Gun * Vox * Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Most Anticipated Book of Fall from: Associated Press * Atlanta Journal-Constitution * BookPage * Book Riot * The Boston Globe * Entertainment Weekly * Esquire * Garden & Gun * LitHub * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Sunset Magazine * Time * Town & Country * The Millions * USA Today * Vogue * Vulture * The Week
An exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful…
I
know the characters in Still True so intimately now that I would
recognize them if I passed them on the street.
The magic of literary fiction is
that authors can explore whatever part of the story they want without having to
conform to genre expectations. It’s relationships that Ginsberg explores in
this beautifully written novel. When you spend your life with another person,
you get to know them intimately. But there are secrets within all of us, even
those we know the best.
This is a novel about personal struggles, truth,
secrets, and all the ways there are to love someone.
One summer evening, Lib Hanson is confronted by her painful past when Matt Marlow, the forty-year-old son she abandoned as an infant, shows up on her porch. Fiercely independent, Lib has never revealed her son's existence-or her previous marriage-to her husband, Jack. Married nearly three decades but living in separate houses (to the confusion but acceptance of their neighbors), they enjoy an ease and comfort together in small-town Anthem, Wisconsin. But Jack is a stickler for honesty, and Lib's long-dormant secret threatens to unravel their lives.
When ten-year-old Charlie Taylor arrives at Jack's workshop shortly thereafter, he's not the first…
I
love books with creepy houses, complicated friendships, grown-ups returning to
their hometowns, dual timelines, and mysterious books that characters must
decode.
The Wonder State has all these things. And not just one creepy
house, but many! From the outside it might seem like your standard
wayward-teens-get-into-trouble story, but it is so much more. It’s magical.
It’s heartfelt. It’s clever. It’s atmospheric.
The houses in this book are more
than homes. They are works of art, they are portals to the past, they are hideouts,
they are solace, and they are terrible dangers, all at once.
From the author of Girl One comes a spellbinding adventure about a strange power lurking in the Arkansas Ozarks, and the group of friends obsessed with finding it.
Five friends arrive back in Eternal Springs, the small town they all fled after high-school graduation. Each of them is drawn home by a cryptic, scrawled two-word letter: You promised.
It has been fifteen years since that life-changing summer, and they're anxious to find out why Brandi called them back, especially when they vowed never to return.
But Brandi is missing. She'd been acting erratically for months, in and out of rehab,…
Petal
Woznewski is content with her introverted life in New York City, but her peace
is shattered when her name appears on the dedication page of an anonymously
written novel: “I know what you did, Petal Woznewski. And now everyone else
will too.”
The novel’s
plot is rooted in a secret she buried thirty years earlier, involving the
tragic death of her friend, Megan. A secret that only one other person
knows—their old friend, Jenny. Petal returns to her hometown of Madison,
Wisconsin to find the author, but discovers more questions than answers.
Sinister clues pile up, and Petal must confront her past and solve the mystery
of who wrote the book—before her very real life ends as tragically as the
novel.
