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Alexander Maksik

Biography

Alexander Maksik

Alexander Maksik is the author of PASSENGERS; YOU DESERVE NOTHING, a New York Times and Indie Bound bestseller; A MARKER TO MEASURE DRIFT, which was a New York Times Notable Book, as well as a finalist for the William Saroyan Prize and Le Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and the basis of the 2023 motion picture Drift; SHELTER IN PLACE, named one of the best books of the year by the Guardian and the San Francisco Chronicle; and THE LONG CORNER, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named one of the best books of the year by The Australian. Maksik is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and The Sewanee Review’s Andrew Lytle Prize. His books have been translated into a dozen languages.

Alexander Maksik

Books by Alexander Maksik

Passengers
by Alexander Maksik - Dystopian, Fiction

Ivan is a solitary man in his 70s, set in his ways and haunted by the failures of his past. His daughter, Nina, is in the twilight of her 20s and has long kept a distance from her sentimental father. But when Ivan proposes a trip to Europe in hopes that it will bring them closer together, Nina reluctantly agrees. They meet at LAX, where their departure is delayed. And delayed again. And again. As the hours drag on, their sharp, caustic and wide-ranging conversation reveals a lifetime of misunderstandings, unhealed wounds and stubborn love. Soon more flights are canceled, security tightens, airport staff grow evasive, and it becomes clear to Ivan and Nina that something is wrong. At last, the surreal starts to overtake the mundane, and their need to escape --- and to protect each other --- turns increasingly urgent.

You Deserve Nothing
by Alexander Maksik - Fiction

William Silver is a charismatic young teacher whose unconventionality raises eyebrows among his colleagues. His students, however, are devoted to him. But when Silver succumbs to a forbidden temptation, his fall renders him a criminal to some, and all too human to others.