GENERAL LIT

In this darkly comic novel, Clown Girl lives in Baloneytown, a neighborhood so run down and penniless that drugs, balloon animals and even rubber chickens contribute to the local currency. Learn More

surreal coming-of-age tale that establishes Ryu Murakami as one of the most inventive young writers in the world today. Learn More

Stella Gibbons' novel is a wickedly funny portrait of British rural life in the 1930s. Learn More

Jack Isidore doesn't see the world like most people. Learn More

In his epistolary novel, Considering Suicide, Andy Nowicki gives voice to the forgotten man, the man for whom "the death of affect" is no postmodernist amusement, but something experienced acutely — as a profound loss to be mourned. Learn More

The title novella is a first-person account of a mentally challenged fourteen-year-old boy who accidentally kills a neighborhood girl and winds up running away and hitching a ride with a trucker who is not as trustworthy a companion as Jimmy believes him to be. Learn More

Welcome to CRUDDY, Lynda Barry's masterful tale of the two intertwined narratives set five years--an eternity--apart, which form the backbone of Roberta's life. Learn More

Mason is young, and he hangs out with kids who are into bad music and bad haircuts. Learn More

Chicana. Goth. Dykling. Desiree Garcia knows she's weird and a weirdo magnet. Learn More