Grass tells the story of Lee Ok-sun, a now-elderly woman who at a young age was forced into sex slavery as a “comfort woman” during WWII.  The story oscillates between the author interviewing a present-day Granny Lee and the story she tells in their meetings. The story is one of a girl eager to learn, to go to school, and to help her family, when no such opportunities are afforded her. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's pronounced brushstrokes are the perfect accompaniment to this harrowing, moving story, a long-overdue chronicle of a dark but significant moment in history. 

Fresh off a Griffin Poetry Prize win for This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt has gifted an inventive collection of poetry, photography, and poetics. In turns interrogative, accusatory, anthropological, NDN Coping Mechanisms trains its gaze on the violence of the twentieth century, writing as proof of Indigenous possibility and utopian longing.

Bonus! We’ll be launching this book on September 9th at Casa del popolo!

New from the estimable Fitzcarraldo Editions comes a fictionalized chronicle of Vivian Maier’s life. Maier, a reclusive, prolific photographer who only entered public consciousness after her death in 2009, becomes the central figure in a meditation on art, madness, and identity from one of Denmark’s most inventive novelists.

A flurry of rock superstardom, environmental activism, and post-9/11 politics surrounds Nell Zink’s main cast of characters, a family bound by shared experience and a belief in goodness. The author of The Wallcreeper and Nicotine’s full talents are on display in this latest novel, an irresistible, witty story full of warmth.

Romance sparks and marriages end in this collection of stories that range from Miami to Port-au-Prince, from children to elders, from head to heart. It’s a hotly anticipated work from a titan of literature, a sensitive glimpse into the mind of a writer who perfectly understanding the human experience.