A suspenseful new novel from Robert Goolrick, a riveting tale of love and war from Robert Olmstead, Kris D’Agostino’s endearing debut novel and Brandon W. Jones’ spellbinding debut that pulls back North Korea’s iron curtain to expose the underworld of human trafficking. Don’t miss these upcoming spring novels from Algonquin.
Heading Out to Wonderful by Robert Goolrick
ISBN 978-1-56512-923-8 $24.95 Hardcover
Publication date: June 12, 2012
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller A Reliable Wife returns with a novel about the dark side of passion set in midcentury America in a small Virginia town.
An attractive and enigmatic stranger–Charlie Beale, a loner recently home from war in Europe–wanders into the town of Brownsburg, a sleepy village of only a few hundred people nestled in the Valley of Virginia. He brings with him two suitcases: one contains all his worldly possessions, including a set of butcher knives; the other is full of money.
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All Woman and Springtime by Brandon W. Jones
ISBN 978-1-61620-077-0 $24.95
Publication Date: May 1, 2012
“One of the most absorbing, chilling, beautifully written and important novels I’ve read in many years.” –Alice Walker
“All Woman and Springtime is brimming with heartache and hope in eual measure. Jones has a gift for empathy as well as a keen sense of justice. This book will open your eyes, break your heart, and then mend it again.” –Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow
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The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac by Kris D’Agostino
ISBN 978-1-56512-951-1 $14.95
Publication Date: March 20, 2012
“Wickedly funny and as often beautiful as it is meandering, this debut novel reads much like Calvin’s life: bursts of activity followed by long periods of idleness and deep thought.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
In the spirit of Nick Hornby and Tom Perrotta, a smart, funny debut about a disillusioned young man whose fledgling leap from post-adolescence to adulthood lands him back in an already overburdened family nest.
The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead
ISBN 978-1-61620-043-5 $22.95
Publication Date: April 3, 2012
Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly consumes him. But when young Mercy’s disapproving father threatens Henry’s life, Henry runs as far as he can–to the other side of the world.
It is 1950 and the Korean War hangs in the balance. Descended from a long line of soldiers, Henry enlists in the marines and arrives in Korea on the eve of the brutal seventeen-day battle of the Chosin Reservoir–the turning point of the war–completely unprepared for the forbidding Korean landscape and the unimaginable circumstances of a war well beyond the scope of anything his ancestors ever aced. But the challenges he meets upon his return home, scarred and haunted, are greater by far.
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