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Nathan Hill, author of The Nix

Meet Samuel Andresen-Anderson: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of an online video game. He hasn’t seen his mother, Faye, since she walked out when he was a child. But then one day there she is, all over the news, throwing rocks at a presidential candidate. The media paints Faye as a militant radical with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother never left her small Iowa town. Which version of his mother is the true one?

Week of May 1, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of May 1st include THE WEEKENDERS by Mary Kay Andrews, in which Riley Griggs' anticipated summer of good times with friends and family on Belle Island takes an unexpected turn when her husband fails to arrive on the ferry and is nowhere to be found; HOMEGOING, Yaa Gyasi's award-winning debut novel that follows the parallel paths of two half sisters and their descendants through eight generations --- from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem; THE TWENTY-THREE, the jaw-dropping finale of Linwood Barclay's Promise Falls Trilogy; and BENEATH A SCARLET SKY by Mark Sullivan, the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.