*FINALIST for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction*

*WINNER of the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award*

*WINNER of the 2020 Story Prize*

*WINNER of the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prize, Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction*

“Tender, fierce, proudly black and beautiful, these stories will sneak inside you and take root.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Triumphant.”—Publishers Weekly

“Cheeky, insightful, and irresistible.” —​​​​​​​Ms. Magazine

“This collection marks the ...

“Nice to meet you, here some thoughts about life you should know.”

When he became a dad, singer-songwriter Milow had a list of life lessons ready to share, but quickly discovered that he had just as much to learn. His song, “Nice To Meet You”, is a father's tribute to his child as they journey through life, side by side.

It’s a celebration of growing up—together—and inspired this beautiful coming of age book for all ages.

The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with a two-volume masterpiece in an artfully designed box set. The Passenger is a fast-paced and sprawling novel while Stella Maris is a tightly-controlled coda, told entirely in dialogue, and together they unveil the thrilling story of a brother and sister, haunted by loss, pursued by conspiracy, and longing for a death they cannot reconcile with God.

The Passenger

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morn...

The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His divelight illumi...

A spellbinding story of three princesses and the destiny they were born for: seduction, conquest, and the crown. Immerse yourself in the first book in a new fantasy trilogy from the author of the New York Times bestselling Ash Princess series.

Empress Margaraux has had plans for her daughters since the day they were born. Princesses Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz will be queens. And now, age sixteen, they each must leave their homeland and marry their princes.

Beautiful, smart, and demure, th...

The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War II

In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, Whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former solider famous for having quixotically defended an island in the Philippines for decades after World War II, unaware the ...

From the Pulitzer prize-winning author of MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON.

'It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us'

In March 2020 Lucy's ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, expecting to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into months, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the sea.

Rich with em...

Jennette McCurdy details how she overcame harrowing struggles as a child TV star-including anorexia and bulimia, addiction, severe obsessive-compulsive disorder and a traumatic relationship with her mother.