Exit West: In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet and embark on a furtive love affair during a period of unrest in their city. When it explodes, they begin to hear whispers about doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. Read a Sample...
Janesville: Two days before Christmas of 2008, General Motors’ oldest operating assembly plant, in Paul Ryan’s hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin, shut down in the midst of the Great Recession. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Amy Goldstein spent years immersed in the small, proud city. Read a Sample...
Behold the Dreamers: A novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young immigrant couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy. Read a Sample...
Code Girls: Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than 10,000 women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Read a Sample...
