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Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK. A woman wondering who she really is goes in search of a father she never knew—only to find something far more complicated than she ... $ 26
Catapult  |  fiction
The Apartment on Calle Uruguay by Zachary Lazar
The Apartment on Calle Uruguay by Zachary Lazar A haunting new novel by the author of Vengeance (Catapult, 2018) in which a chance encounter between a blocked painter and a journalist leads to a com... $ 26
Catapult  |  fiction
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere by Sindya Bhanoo
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere by Sindya Bhanoo O. Henry Prize winner Sindya Bhanoo’s stunning debut offers intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind, centering women’s ... $ 26
Catapult  |  short stories
Body Work by Melissa Febos
Body Work by Melissa Febos Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of how we think and write about intimate experiences — “a mus... $ 16.95
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Portrait of an Unknown Lady by Maria Gainza, translated by Thomas Bunstead
Portrait of an Unknown Lady by Maria Gainza, translated by Thomas Bunstead New York Times Notable author María Gainza, who dazzled critics with Optic Nerve, returns with the captivating story of an auction house employ... $ 24
Catapult  |  fiction
Heartbroke by Chelsea Bieker
Heartbroke by Chelsea Bieker From the acclaimed author of Godshot and “a pitch-perfect ventriloquist of extraordinary talent and ferocity” (T Kira Madden) comes a defining book of... $ 26
Catapult  |  short stories
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser A profoundly original exploration of racism, misogyny, and ageism—three monsters that plague the world—this novel from a beloved and prize-winning author is ... $ 16.95
Catapult  |  fiction
The Lonely Stories edited by Natalie Eve Garrett
The Lonely Stories edited by Natalie Eve Garrett A collection of essays about the joys and struggles of being alone by 22 literary writers including: Lev Grossman, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lena Dunham, Jesmyn Ward, Y... $ 16.95
Catapult  |  essays
You've Changed by Pyae Moe Thet War
You've Changed by Pyae Moe Thet War A Myanmar millennial speaks back in this electric debut essay collection playfully challenging us to examine the knots and complications of immigration statu... $ 26
Catapult  |  essays
Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth
Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth From the Man Booker International Prize–winning author of Celestial Bodies, a “remarkable” writer who has “constructed her own novelistic form” (James... $ 26
Catapult  |  fiction
Rainbow Rainbow by Lydia Conklin
Rainbow Rainbow by Lydia Conklin A collection of stories that celebrate the humor, darkness, and depth of emotion of the queer and trans experience that's not typically represented: liminal ... $ 16.95
Catapult  |  short stories
The World As We Knew It edited by Amy Brady and Tajja Isen
The World As We Knew It edited by Amy Brady and Tajja Isen Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives. With e... $ 16.95
Catapult  |  essays
X: A Novel by Davey Davis
X: A Novel by Davey Davis A thrilling portrait of political terror and the violent pleasures found in warehouses, bathrooms, and dungeons across New York City, X is a novel tha... $ 16.95
Catapult  |  fiction
1,000 Coils of Fear by Olivia Wenzel, translated by Priscilla Layne
1,000 Coils of Fear by Olivia Wenzel, translated by Priscilla Layne A polyphonic investigation into where we’re from and where we’re going, what it really means to be the odd one out, what it really means to belong, and what ... $ 16.95
Catapult  |  fiction
Body Language edited by Nicole Chung and Matt Ortile
Body Language edited by Nicole Chung and Matt Ortile A kaleidoscopic anthology of essays published by Catapult magazine about the stories our bodies tell, and how we move within—and against—expectations ... $ 16.95
Catapult  |  nonfiction
This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown by Taylor Harris
This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown by Taylor Harris One mother's story of her efforts to make sense of her young son's unexplainable medical condition, and what it reveals about herself and her world—who she i... $ 26
Catapult  |  memoir
Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena by Jordan Salama
Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena by Jordan Salama An exhilarating travelogue for a new generation about a journey along Colombia’s Magdalena River, exploring life by the banks of a majestic river now at risk... $ 26
Catapult  |  memoir
Indigo by Padgett Powell
Indigo by Padgett Powell The first collection of nonfiction by "one of the few truly important American writers of our time" (Sam Lipsyte). $ 16.95
Catapult  |  fiction
The Four Humors by Mina Seçkin
The Four Humors by Mina Seçkin This wry and visceral debut novel follows a young Turkish-American woman who, rather than grieving her father's untimely death, seeks treatment for a stubbor... $ 27
Catapult  |  fiction
Gentrifier by Anne Elizabeth Moore
Gentrifier by Anne Elizabeth Moore In 2016, Write A House, a Detroit-based arts organization, granted Anne Elizabeth Moore, Eisner winner and Lambda Literary Award finalist, a free house--a ro... $ 26
Catapult  |  memoir
Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor
Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor From the internationally bestselling author of Reservoir 13, a thrilling and "beautiful" new novel of Antarctica which "leaves the reader moved and subtly ch... $ 26
Catapult  |  fiction
Hao by Ye Chun
Hao by Ye Chun "The most common word in Chinese, perhaps, a ubiquitous syllable people utter and hear all the time, which is supposed to mean good. But what is hao in this ... $ 26
Catapult  |  short stories
Now Beacon, Now Sea: A Son's Memoir by Christopher Sorrentino
Now Beacon, Now Sea: A Son's Memoir by Christopher Sorrentino A wrenching debut memoir of familial grief by National Book Award finalist Christopher Sorrentino—and a defining account of what it means to love and lose a ... $ 26
Catapult  |  memoir
Best Debut Short Stories 2021: The PEN America Dau Prize edited by Yuka Igarashi and Sarah Lyn Rogers
Best Debut Short Stories 2021: The PEN America Dau Prize edited by Yuka Igarashi and Sarah Lyn Rogers The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction, selected this year by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and Beth Piatote $ 16.95
Catapult  |  fiction
The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore
The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the residents of a small English town in the grip of the seventee... $ 26
Catapult  |  fiction
Made in China by Anna Qu
Made in China by Anna Qu A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a C... $ 26
Catapult  |  memoir
Prepare Her: Stories by Genevieve Plunkett
Prepare Her: Stories by Genevieve Plunkett Brilliant, biting stories set in not-so bucolic Vermont, land of antique stores, small town, fading farms, and young women trying to figure out marriage, mot... $ 16.95
Catapult  |  short stories
Dead Souls by Sam Riviere
Dead Souls by Sam Riviere For readers of Roberto Bolaño's Savage Detectives and Muriel Spark's Loitering with Intent, this metaphysical mystery disguised as a picaresque romp follows ... $ 26
Catapult  |  fiction
Low Country by J. Nicole Jones
Low Country by J. Nicole Jones "The Glass Castle" meets "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" in this incandescent debut memoir of one family's changing fortunes in the Low Country of ... $ 26
Catapult  |  essays
My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinović
My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinović An intimate work of autobiographical fiction by one of ex-Yugoslavia's greatest writers about his family's experience as refugees from the Bosnian war—a time... $ 27
Catapult  |  novel
The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts
The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts A young Australian woman unable to find her footing in the world begins to break down when the emergencies she hears working as a 911 operator and the troubl... $ 16.95
Catapult  |  fiction
Bewilderness by Karen Tucker
Bewilderness by Karen Tucker Set in rural, poverty-stricken North Carolina, this funny, painful, and very wise novel follows two young women--best friends--as they struggle to free thems... $ 26
Catapult  |  novel
Pop Song by Larissa Pham
Pop Song by Larissa Pham Endlessly inventive, intimate, and provocative, Larissa Pham’s memoir-in-essays is a celebration of the strange and exquisite state of falling in love, wheth... $ 26
Catapult  |  essays
Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer by Jamie Figueroa
Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer by Jamie Figueroa A fableistic, incantatory debut novel of enormous power and grace about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss. $ 25
Catapult  |  family
Love Is An Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar
Love Is An Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this provocative memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores... $ 26
Catapult  |  memoir
Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses
Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses A groundbreaking resource for fiction writers, teachers, and students, this manifesto and practical guide challenges current models of craft and the writing ... $ 16.95
Catapult  |  nonfiction
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler A provocative examination of social media, sex, feminism, and fiction, the connection they’ve all promised, and the lies they help us tell, for readers of Sh... $ 26
Catapult  |  fiction
Stillicide by Cynan Jones
Stillicide by Cynan Jones New Yorker fiction writer Cynan Jones returns with a powerful climate crisis story about love and loss that offers a glimpse of a tangible future in which wa... $ 15.95
Catapult  |  Environment
Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto
Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto A collection of horror-inspired flash fiction, featuring over 40 new stories from literary, horror, and emerging writers—edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxiel... $ 16.95
Catapult  |  fiction
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad An explosive book of history and cultural criticism that argues that white feminism, from Australia to Zimbabwe to the United States, has been a weapon of wh... $ 16.95
Catapult  |  nonfiction
High as the Waters Rise: A Novel by Anja Kampmann, translated by Anne Posten
High as the Waters Rise: A Novel by Anja Kampmann, translated by Anne Posten German poet Anja Kampmann’s award-winning debut novel is the dazzling, heartrending story of an oil rig worker whose closest friend goes missing, plunging hi... $ 16.95 +
Catapult  |  fiction
Best Debut Short Stories 2020: The PEN America Dau Prize
Best Debut Short Stories 2020: The PEN America Dau Prize The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction, selected this year by Tracy O’Neill, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, and Deb Olin Unferth $ 16.95
anthology  |  Catapult
What Happens at Night by Peter Cameron
What Happens at Night by Peter Cameron An atmospheric, suspenseful story of a couple’s struggle to adopt a baby, while staying in a fading, grand European hotel. (Think: Barton Fink crossed with P... $ 16.95 +
Catapult  |  fiction
Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts by Jessica J. Lee
Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts by Jessica J. Lee An exhilarating, anti-colonial reclamation of nature writing and memoir, rooted in the forests and flatlands of Taiwan, perfect for fans of Margaret Renkl's ... $ 16.95
Catapult  |  memoir
The Baddest Bitch in the Room: A Memoir by Sophia Chang
The Baddest Bitch in the Room: A Memoir by Sophia Chang An inspiring story about Chang's life as the first Asian woman in hip-hop, working with such acts as The Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest. $ 17.95 +
Catapult  |  memoir
Officer Clemmons: A Memoir by Dr. François S. Clemmons
Officer Clemmons: A Memoir by Dr. François S. Clemmons The intimate debut memoir by the man known to the world as Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood's Officer Clemmons, who made history as the first African American act... $ 17.95 +
Catapult  |  memoir
No Presents Please: Stories by Jayant Kaikini, translated by Tejaswini Niranjana
No Presents Please: Stories by Jayant Kaikini, translated by Tejaswini Niranjana Winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival Literary Achievement Award, Jayant Kaikini is one of In... $ 16.95
Catapult  |  fiction
You Exist Too Much: A Novel by Zaina Arafat
You Exist Too Much: A Novel by Zaina Arafat A startling debut novel of desire and doubleness following the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual iden... $ 16.95 +
Catapult  |  fiction
Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer by Carlos Busqued, translated by Samuel Rutter
Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer by Carlos Busqued, translated by Samuel Rutter One of Argentina’s most innovative writers captures the voice of a man who in 1982 murdered four taxi drivers without any apparent motive, using interviews, ... $ 16.95 +
Catapult  |  nonfiction
Even the Dogs: A Novel by Jon McGregor
Even the Dogs: A Novel by Jon McGregor A daring and humane exploration of homelessness and addiction, now reissued with a new introduction from Yiyun Li $ 16.95
Catapult  |  fiction

Black Balloon Books

Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir by Amy Kurzweil
Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir by Amy Kurzweil A graphic memoir that tells the stories of three unstoppable woman; an artist, a psychologist, and a survivor of trauma and genocide. $ 18.95
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And Every Day Was Overcast by Paul Kwiatkowski

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And Every Day Was Overcast by Paul Kwiatkowski “This illustrated novel about growing up poor near the swamps of South Florida has a lurid vibrancy" —The New York Times $ 29.95 +
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Come Here Often? 53 Writers Raise a Glass to Their Favorite Bar Ed. Sean Manning
Come Here Often? 53 Writers Raise a Glass to Their Favorite Bar Ed. Sean Manning 53 writers answer one question: what makes your favorite bar better than all the rest? $ 16
anthology  |  black balloon
Fat Man and Little Boy by Mike Meginnis
Fat Man and Little Boy by Mike Meginnis Winner of the 2013 Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize! $ 10
black balloon  |  fiction
We Were Flying to Chicago: Stories by Kevin Clouther
We Were Flying to Chicago: Stories by Kevin Clouther Short stories that reveal unexpectedly profound insights in moments of daily life. $ 14
black balloon  |  fiction
Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perišic
Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perišic A gripping novel about war, reporting, and highly peculiar family members from one of Croatia's top writers. $ 14
black balloon  |  fiction
Nine Rabbits by Virginia Zaharieva
Nine Rabbits by Virginia Zaharieva Translated for the first time into English, this celebrated Bulgarian novel explores trauma, survival, and the resilience of joy. $ 6.99 +
black balloon  |  fiction
Maverick Jetpants in the City of Quality by Bill Peters
Maverick Jetpants in the City of Quality by Bill Peters "So be ready, everybody. Here comes the Vomit Cruiser to rescue your sense of humor, and Bill Peters to rescue your heart.” - Sam Lipsyte $ 14
black balloon  |  fiction
Louise: Amended by Louise Krug
Louise: Amended by Louise Krug "A page-turner in which a person's very soul deepens before your eyes." —Mary Karr $ 14
black balloon  |  memoir
The Recipe Project: A Delectable Extravaganza of Food and Music by One Ring Zero
The Recipe Project: A Delectable Extravaganza of Food and Music by One Ring Zero A true multimedia project, within these pages you can find recipes, music, and personal interviews from famous chefs. $ 24.95
black balloon  |  food
Clementine Classics: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Clementine Classics: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser Timeless classics, annotated by Clementine the Hedgehog. $ 2.99
black balloon  |  fiction
I, Parrot: A Graphic Novel by Deb Olin Unferth and Elizabeth Haidle
I, Parrot: A Graphic Novel by Deb Olin Unferth and Elizabeth Haidle Parrots, pigeons, and a mother's fierce love; I, Parrot is a beautifully illustrated graphic novel. $ 18.95
black balloon  |  Catapult
Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto
Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto Tales of villainy and intrigue told in a flash. Featuring Carmen Maria Machado, Amelia Gray, Yuri Herrera & many more. $ 15.95
black balloon  |  Catapult
Northwood by Maryse Meijer
Northwood by Maryse Meijer Part fairy tale, part horror story, Northwood is a genre-breaking novella told in short, brilliant, beautifully strange passages. $ 18.95
black balloon  |  Catapult
Riddance; or, The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children by Shelley Jackson
Riddance; or, The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children by Shelley Jackson In this unforgettable ghost story, the headmistress of a mysterious boarding school gathers students with speech "impediments" to speak with the dead. $ 17.95 +
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