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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
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
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 Travel writing for a new generation by a protege of John McPhee ("A born journalist") and Pico Iyer ("A writer, a traveler—a virtuoso—of rare talent and ener... $ 26
Catapult  |  memoir
Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo Girl, Woman, Other meets An American Marriage in this gripping story of a mixed-race woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by a priz... $ 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. $ 16.95 +
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
On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear by Lynn Casteel Harper
On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear by Lynn Casteel Harper An essential, empathic exploration of dementia, and in the process asks searching questions about what it means to face our own inevitable vanishing $ 16.95 +
Catapult  |  nonfiction
Godshot: A Novel by Chelsea Bieker
Godshot: A Novel by Chelsea Bieker A dazzling literary debut by Rona Jaffe Award winner Chelsea Bieker about one teenage girl’s feminist awakening and her search for her missing mother $ 16.95 +
Catapult  |  fiction
Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land by Noé Álvarez
Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land by Noé Álvarez The electrifying debut memoir of a son of working-class Mexican immigrants who fled a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marat... $ 16.95 +
Catapult  |  memoir
On Shirley Hazzard by Michelle de Kretser
On Shirley Hazzard by Michelle de Kretser A brilliant introduction to Hazzard and a gift for her longtime readers $ 14.95
Catapult  |  Criticism
Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth
Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth Winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize $ 16.95
Catapult  |  fiction
A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home In the first published anthology of writing from Catapult magazine, twenty writers share stories of migration, family, the search for home and belonging, and... $ 16.95
anthology  |  Catapult
Black Sunday: A Novel by Tola Rotimi Abraham
Black Sunday: A Novel by Tola Rotimi Abraham Following the fate of one family over the course of two decades in Nigeria, this debut novel tells the story of each sibling’s search for agency, love, and m... $ 16.95 +
Catapult  |  fiction
Night Theater: A Novel by Vikram Paralkar
Night Theater: A Novel by Vikram Paralkar A surgeon must bring a dead family back to life in this fabulist novel set in rural India, which examines power, corruption, and ethics $ 16.95
Catapult  |  fiction
Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum
Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about publishing—but were afraid to ask. $ 16.95
Catapult  |  nonfiction
The Crying Book by Heather Christle
The Crying Book by Heather Christle Why do we cry? How do we cry? And what does it mean? $ 16.95
Catapult  |  social science
Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers, ed. by Natalie Eve Garrett
Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers, ed. by Natalie Eve Garrett An illustrated anthology of essays about the comfort foods—and recipes—that helped writers survive painful times in their lives $ 22
Catapult  |  essays
Humiliation: Stories by Paulina Flores
Humiliation: Stories by Paulina Flores This debut story collection by Roberto Bolaño Prize winner Paulina Flores marks the arrival in the U.S. of one of Latin America’s most celebrated young writers $ 16.95
Catapult  |  short stories
Here Until August: Stories by Josephine Rowe
Here Until August: Stories by Josephine Rowe A collection of stories full of heartbreak, travel, and seduction from the young Australian author of A LOVING, FAITHFUL ANIMAL $ 16.95
Catapult  |  short stories
PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019
PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019 The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction $ 16.95
anthology  |  Catapult

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 +
black balloon  |  fiction
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 +
black balloon  |  Catapult