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20W Macm PicadorBrown White BlackAn American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender,Sexuality, and Religionby Nishta J. MehraPicadorOn Sale: Feb 4/205.38 x 8.25 224 pages9781250295712 23.00 pbFamily & Relationships / GeneralIntimate and honest essays on motherhood, marriage, love, andacceptanceBrown White Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who iswhite; her adopted child, Shiv, who is black; and their experiences dealingwith America's rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. Her clear-eyed andincisive writing on her family's daily struggle to make space for themselvesamid racial intolerance and stereotypes personalizes some of America's mostfraught issues. Mehra writes candidly about her efforts to protect and shelterShiv from racial slurs on the playground and fromintrusive questions bystrangers while educating her child on the realities and dangers of being blackin America. In other essays, she discusses growing up in the racially polarizedcity of Memphis; coming out as queer; being an adoptive mother who isbrown; and what it's like to be constantly confronted by people's confusion,concern, and expectations about her child and her family. Above all, Mehraargues passionately for a more nuanced and compassionate understanding ofidentity and family.Both poignant and challenging, Brown White Black is a remarkable portrait ofa loving family on the front lines of some of the most highly chargedconversations in our culture.NotesPromotionFor marginalized people, widening the understanding of identity is a path tofreedom. . . . These essays mine deep and distinct emotional terrain. Mehradelves unflinchingly into each of her identities and their sharp intersections. Inthis collection Mehra is unafraid to struggle for her own liberty. Readers mayfinish these pages a bit freer themselves." - Camille Acker, The New YorkTimes Book Review"A stirring portrait. . . Touching on issues of race, gender, sexuality,parenthood, marriage, and (.)Author BioNISHTA J. MEHRA was raised among a tight-knit network of Indianimmigrants in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the proud graduate of St. Mary'sEpiscopal School and holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from Rice Universityand an M.F.A in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. An Englishteacher with over a decade of experience in middle and high schoolclassrooms, she lives with her wife, Jill, and their child, Shiv, in Phoenix. Sheis the author of The Pomegranate King, a collection of essays.Sales Rep6

20W Macm PicadorThe Made-Up ManA Novelby Joseph ScapellatoScapellato's blend of existential noir, absurdist humor, literary fiction,and surreal exploration of performance art merges into somethingspecial. . . . The Made-Up Man is a rare novel that is simultaneouslysmart and entertaining." - Gabino Iglesias, NPRPicadorOn Sale: Feb 4/205.38 x 8.25 320 pages9781250251060 23.00 pbFiction / LiteraryNotesStanley had known it was a mistake to accept his uncle Lech's offer toapartment-sit in Prague - he'd known it was one of Lech's proposals, a thinlyveiled setup for some invasive, potentially dangerous performance art project.But whatever Lech had planned for Stanley, it would get him to Prague andmaybe offer a chance to make things right with T after his failed attempt topropose.Stanley can take it. He can ignore their hijinks, resist being drafted into theirevolving, darkening script. As the operation unfolds it becomes clear there'smore to this performance than he expected; they know more about Stanley'sstate of mind than he knows himself. He may be able to step over chalkoutlines in the hallway, may be able to turn away from the women acting ashis mother or the men performing as his father, but when a man made up tolook like Stanley begins to playout his most devastating memory, he won't beable to stand outside this imitation of his life any longer.Immediately and wholly immersive, Joseph Scapellato's debut novel, TheMade-Up Man, is a hilarious examination of art's role in self-knowledge, asinister send-up of self-deception, and a big-hearted investigation into the castof characters necessary to help us finally meet ourselves."PromotionNamed a Best New Book of February (.)Author BioJoseph Scapellato's debut story collection, Big Lonesome, was published in2017. He earned his MFA in fiction at New Mexico State University and hasbeen published in Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Post Road Magazine,PANK, UNSAID, and other literary magazines. His work has beenanthologized in Forty Stories, Gigantic Worlds: An Anthology of Science FlashFiction, and The Best Innovative Writing .Scapellato is an assistant professor of English in the creative writing programat Bucknell University. He grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and lives inLewisburg, Pennsylvania, with his wife, daughter, and dog.He is the author of The Made-Up ManSales Rep7

20W Macm PicadorThe Peacock FeastA Novelby Lisa GornickPicadorOn Sale: Feb 4/205.38 x 8.25 304 pagesIncludes one black-and-white frontispiece9781250251282 23.00 pbFiction / LiteraryNotesPromotionFrom one of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction inAmerica. . . immensely talented and brave"(Michael Schaub, NPR), ahistorical saga about love, class, and the past we never escape.The Peacock Feast opens on a June day in 1916 when Louis C. Tiffany, theeccentric glass genius, dynamites the breakwater at Laurelton Hall - hisfantastical Oyster Bay mansion, with columns capped by brilliant ceramicblossoms and a smokestack hidden in a blue-banded minaret - so as to foilthe town from reclaiming the beach for public use. The explosion shakes boththe apple crate where Prudence, the daughter of Tiffany's prized gardener, issleeping and the rocks where Randall, her seven-year-old brother, is playing.Nearly a century later, Prudence receives an unexpected visit at her New Yorkapartment from Grace, a hospice nurse and the granddaughter of Randall,who Prudence never saw again after he left at age fourteen for California. Themementos Grace carries from her grandfather's house stir Prudence's longrepressed memories and bring her to a new understanding of the choices shemade in work and love, and what she faces now in her final days.Spanning the twentieth century and three continents, The Peacock Feastricochets from Manhattan to San Francisco, from the decadent mansions ofthe Tiffany family to the death row of a Texas prison, and from the Londonconsultation room of Anna Freud to a Mendocino commune. Withpsychological acuity and aching eloquence, Lisa Gornick has written asweeping family drama, an exploration of the meaning of art and the art ofdying, and an illuminating portrait of how our decisions reverberate acrosstime and (.)Author BioLisa Gornick is the author of Louisa Meets Bear, Tinderbox, and A PrivateSorcery . Her stories and essays have appeared widely, including in The NewYork Times, Prairie Schooner, Real Simple, Salon, Slate, and The Sun . Sheholds a BA from Princeton and a PhD in clinical psychology from Yale, and ison the faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Trainingand Research. A long-time New Yorker, she lives in Manhattan with her family.Sales Rep8

20W Macm PicadorQueen BeyA Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyonce KnowlesCarterby Veronica ChambersPicadorOn Sale: Feb 4/205.38 x 8.25 224 pagesIncludes a 24-page full-color photograph insert9781250231451 24.50 pbBiography / Composers & MusiciansNotesFEATURED IN: The New York Times Book Review (New andNoteworthy") o Essence o Newsweek o People o Bustle o PopSugar oRefinery 29 o HelloGiggles' o PureWow o Newsday oAMNewYorkThe UltimateBeyonce Collectible"Beyonce fans will eat it up." - People"You don't need to be in the Beyhive to appreciate Queen Bey. .Voicesincluding culture critic Luvvie Ajayi and actress and producer LenaWaithe give us a fresh take on Beyonce, who's arguably the biggest popstar of our time." - EssenceBeyonce. Her name conjures more than music, it has come to be synonymouswith beauty, glamour, power, creativity, love, and romance. Her performancesare legendary, her album releases events. She is not even forty but she hasalready rewritten the Beyonce playbook more than half a dozen times. She isconsistently provocative, political and surprising. As a solo artist, she has soldmore than 100 million records. She has won 22 Grammys and is the mostnominated woman artist in the history of Grammy awards. Her 2018performance at Coachella wowed the world. The New York Times wrote:"There's not likely to be a more meaningful, absorbing, forceful and radicalperformance by an American musician this year or any year soon." Artist,business woman, mother, daughter, sister, wife, black feminist, Queen Bey isendlessly fascinating.Queen Bey features a diverse range of voices, from star academics tooutspoken cultural critics to Hollywood and music stars. Essays include:"What (.)PromotionAuthor BioVERONICA CHAMBERS is the editor of the New York Times archivalstorytelling team, a new initiative devoted to publishing articles based onphotographs recently rediscovered as the paper digitizes millions of images.She is the editor of The Meaning of Michelle, celebrating the former first lady,which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a Time Magazine TopNonfiction of the year. Veronica has written several books as well, includingMama's Girl, a critically acclaimed memoir, and she co-wrote Yes, Chef withMarcus Samuelsson and 32 Yolks with Eric Ripert.Sales Rep9

20W Macm PicadorApproaching Eye Levelby Vivian GornickAuthor BioVivian Gornick's books include Approaching Eye Level, The End of TheNovel of Love, and The Situation and The Story . She lives in New York City.PicadorOn Sale: Feb 4/205.38 x 8.25 176 pages9780374538255 22.00 pbBiography / WomenNotesPromotionSales Rep10

20W Macm PicadorThe End of the Novel of Loveby Vivian GornickAuthor BioVivian Gornick's books include Approaching Eye Level, The End of TheNovel of Love, and The Situation and The Story . She lives in New York City.PicadorOn Sale: Feb 4/205.38 x 8.25 176 pages9780374538262 22.00 pbLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20Th CenturyNotesPromotionSales Rep11

20W Macm PicadorGood Kids, Bad CityA Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in Americaby Kyle SwensonPicadorOn Sale: Feb 11/205.38 x 8.25 304 pages9781250120250 24.50 pbSocial Science / PenologyFrom award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids,Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in theUnited States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and politicalhistory of Cleveland, the city that convicted them.In the early 1970s, three African-American men - Wiley Bridgeman, KwameAjamu, and Rickey Jackson - were accused and convicted of the brutalrobbery and murder of a man outside of a convenience store in Cleveland,Ohio. The prosecution's case, which resulted in a combined 106 years inprison for the three men, rested on the more-than-questionable testimony of apre-teen, Ed Vernon.The actual murderer was never found. Almost four decades later, Vernonrecanted his testimony, and Wiley, Kwame, and Rickey were released. Butwhile their exoneration may have ended one of American history's mostdisgraceful miscarriages of justice, the corruption and decay of the cityresponsible for their imprisonment remain on trial.Interweaving the dramatic details of the case with Cleveland's history - onethat, to this day, is fraught with systemic discrimination and racial tension Swenson reveals how this outrage occurred and why. Good Kids, Bad City isa work of astonishing empathy and insight: an immersive exploration of racein America, the struggling Midwest, and how lost lives can be recovered.NotesPromotionAcompelling, beautifully writtenbookthat goes well beyond that initialjournalistic probe into a grave injustice . . . Apowerful addition to thegrowing literature on the failures of America's criminal justice system. Itis also a gripping, novelistic account of what happened to the threedefendants and their lone accuser after the convictions, a frank confession ofthe methods and emotions of (.)Author BioKYLE SWENSON is a reporter for The Washington Post. A finalist for theLivingston Award for Young Journalists, he is also the recipient of the Societyof Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for Feature Reporting. Hiswork has appeared in The Village Voice, The New Republic, and Longreads .A graduate of Kenyon College, he lives in Washington, D.C. Good Kids, BadCity is his first book.Sales Rep12

20W Macm PicadorDeath Is Hard WorkA Novelby Khaled Khalifa, translated by Leri PricePicadorOn Sale: Feb 11/205.38 x 8.25 192 pages9781250251077 23.00 pbFiction / LiteraryNotesPromotionA dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of the Syrian civil warKhaled Khalifa's Death Is Hard Work is the new novel from the greatestchronicler of Syria's ongoing and catastrophic civil war: a tale of three ordinarypeople facing down the stuff of nightmares armed with little more than simpledetermination.Abdel Latif, an old man from the Aleppo region, dies peacefully in a hospitalbed in Damascus. His final wish, conveyed to his youngest son, Bolbol, is tobe buried in the family plot in their ancestral village of Anabiya. Though Abdelwas hardly an ideal father, and though Bolbol is estranged from his siblings,this conscientious son persuades his older brother Hussein and his sisterFatima to accompany him and the body to Anabiya, which is - after all - only atwo-hour drive from Damascus.There's only one problem: Their country is a war zone.With the landscape of their childhood now a labyrinth of competing armieswhose actions are at once arbitrary and lethal, the siblings' decision to setaside their differences and honor their father's request quickly balloons from aminor commitment into an epic and life-threatening quest. Syria, however, isno longer a place for heroes, and the decisions the family must make alongthe way - as they find themselves captured and recaptured, interrogated,imprisoned, and bombed - will prove to have enormous consequences for allof them.[A]brilliant, blackly absurdist road-trip novel, a restaging of As I Lay Dyingin the thick of the world's most brutal civil war." - Sam Sacks, The Wall StreetJournal (.)Author BioKHALED KHALIFA was born in 1964 near Aleppo, Syria. He is the fifth child ofa family of thirteen siblings. He studied law at Aleppo University and activelyparticipated in the foundation of Aleph magazine with a group of writers andpoets. A few months later, the magazine was closed down by Syriancensorship. Active on the arts scene in Damascus where he lives, Khalifa is awriter of screenplays for television and cinema. His novels include In Praise ofHatred and Death is Hard WorkSales Rep13

20W Macm PicadorTerritory of LightA Novelby Yuko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine HarcourtFrom one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, ahaunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirthYuko Tsushima is one of the most important Japanese writers of hergeneration." - Foumiko Kometani, The New York TimesPicadorOn Sale: Feb 11/204.5 x 7.12 192 pages9781250251053 22.00 pbFiction / LiteraryNotesPromotionI was puzzled by how I had changed. But I could no longer go back . . .It is spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyoapartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as shestruggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. Her new home is filledwith light streaming through the windows, so bright she has to squint, but shefinds herself plummeting deeper into darkness, becoming unstable,untethered. As the months come and go and the seasons turn, she mustconfront what she has lost and what she will become.At once tender and lacerating, luminous and unsettling, Yuko Tsushima'sTerritory of Light is a novel of abandonment, desire, and transformation. It wasoriginally published in twelve parts in the Japanese literary monthly Gunzo,between 1978 and 1979, each chapter marking the months in real time. It wonthe inaugural Noma Literary Prize."Winner of the Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation PrizeThe fact that the novel, which has been elegantly translated into English byGeraldine Harcourt, seems to be in direct dialogue with contemporary novelsof motherhood . . . suggests both its deep prescience and the enduringrelevance of (.)Author BioYuko Tsushima was born in Tokyo in 1947, the daughter of the novelistOsamu Dazai, who took his own life when she was one year old. Her prolificliterary career began with her first collection of short stories, Shaniku-sai( Carnival ), which she published at the age of twenty-four. She won manyawards, including the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature (1977), the KawabataPrize (1983), and the Tanizaki Prize (1998). She died in 2016.Sales Rep14

20W Macm PicadorHow to Hide an EmpireA History of the Greater United Statesby Daniel ImmerwahrPicadorOn Sale: Feb 18/205.38 x 8.25 528 pagesIncludes 56 black-and-white photographs throughout9781250251091 26.99 pbHistory / US / GeneralNotesPromotionA pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions andthe true meaning of its empireWe are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiarwith the idea that the United States is an empire," exercising power aroundthe world. But what about the actual territories - the islands, atolls, andarchipelagos - this country has governed and inhabited?In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of theUnited States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, hereveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travelto the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenthcentury's most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the mostdestructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S.doctors conducted grisly experiments

by Chris Power An extraordinary" (The Sunday Times) debut of unnerving beauty, Chris Power's short story collectionMothersevokes the magic and despair of the essential human longing for purpose.