John Crow's Devil (29 page)

“Jones’s latest and best novel is impressively researched, very nuanced, and has no false notes.”
—East Hampton Star

LIMBO by Sean Keith Henry
270 pages, a trade paperback original, $15.95, ISBN: 1-888451-55-6

“
Limbo
is a smart, honest novel about displacement and the meaning of home. It struggles in turn with the embracing of identity and the welcome comfort of escape.”
—P
ERCIVAL
E
VERETT
, author of
Erasure
, winner of the Hurston/
Wright Legacy Award

“
Limbo
is a strong, unsettling novel about race, dislocation, and the fragility of human connection. Through a series of events that seem both startling and inevitable, it skillfully depicts the ways we become alienated from those who love us—and from ourselves.”
—N
INA
R
EVOYR
, author of
Southland

A PHAT DEATH by Norman Kelley
260 pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95
ISBN: 1-888451-48-3

She’s back!
… A Nina Halligan Mystery

“Nina Halligan takes on the recording industry and black music in Norman Kelley’s third outrageous caper to feature the bad girl PI … Once again outspoken social criticism fires the nonstop action.”
—
Publishers Weekly

SOUTHLAND by Nina Revoyr
An
L.A. Times
bestseller, winner of a Lambda Literary Award 348 pages, trade paperback, $15.95, ISBN: 1-888451-41-6

“What makes a book like
Southland
resonate is that it merges elements of literature and social history with the propulsive drive of a mystery, while evoking Southern California as a character, a key player in the tale. Such aesthetics have motivated other Southland writers, most notably Walter Mosley.”
—Los Angeles Times

SCARS OF THE SOUL ARE WHY KIDS WEAR BANDAGES WHEN THEY DON’T HAVE BRUISES
by Miles Marshall Lewis
200 pages, nonfiction/essays, a trade paperback original, $14.95
ISBN: 1-888451-71-8

“Lewis has composed an observant and urbane B-boy’s rites of passage, one which deftly transports us from the Boogie Down—better known as the Bronx—to the Champs Élysées. Herein find a hip-hop bildungsroman told in prose full of buoyancy and bounce, generously stocked with revelations about black transatlantic culture and romance that are as much a generation’s as the writer’s own.”
—G
REG
T
ATE
, author of
Flyboy in the Buttermilk

ADIOS MUCHACHOS by Daniel Chavarría
(translated by Carlos Lopez)
Winner of a 2001 Edgar Award
$13.95, trade paperback, 245 pages, ISBN: 1-888451-16-5

“Daniel Chavarría has long been recognized as one of Latin America’s finest writers. Now he again proves why …”
—Edgar Award-winning author W
ILLIAM
H
EFFERNAN

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