Counterpoint Fiction & Mystery

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	Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me MARTIN MILLAR Glasgow, 1972. The nerdy Martin is competing for the attentions of a popular girl named Suzy. He seems unlikely to succeed. Then again, with Led Zeppelin coming to town, it feels like anything can happen. In this humorous coming-of-age cocktail, Martin learns that love may break your heart, but Led Zeppelin will never let you down. SOFT SKULL PRESS \| 978-1-59376-200-1 \| Trade Paper \| $13.95

	Landsman A Novel PETER CHARLES MELMAN “People who loved Cold Mountain will find themselves drawn into Peter Melman’s spell. Just when you thought you could not learn anything new about the Civil War—or New Orleans—along comes this rich story of the Jewish Confederacy. This is an auspicious debut that heralds the arrival of a unique American voice.” —Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird’s Daughter COUNTERPOINT \| 978-1-58243-367-7 \| Cloth \| $24.95

	How the Dead Dream A Novel LYDIA MILLET “At once an involving character study and a stunning meditation on loss . . . Millet’s latest unfolds like a beautiful, disturbing dream.” —Publishers Weekly (starred) “[A] writer of encompassing empathy and imaginative lyricism, and a satirist of great wit and heart, takes readers on an intelligently conceived and devastating journey.”—Booklist (starred review) COUNTERPOINT \| 978-1-59376-184-4 \| Cloth \| $24.00

	Shame in the Blood A Novel TETSUO MIURA TRANSLATED BY ANDREW DRIVER Considered one of the finest love stories in modern Japanese literature, Shame in the Blood sold over a million copies when first published in Japan, won the Akutagawa Prize for Literature, and was made into a feature film directed by Obayashi Nobuhiko. Working in the tradition of the great Japanese novelists, Miura takes his place as one of his country’s greatest writers. COUNTERPOINT \| 978-1-59376-171-4 \| Cloth \| $24.95

	Cool for You A Novel EILEEN MYLES Eileen Myles’s gritty autobiographical novel traces the downbeat progress of a girl growing up in working-class Boston. Cool for You’s tough-girl narrator wants to be an astronaut. Instead, she becomes a poet and takes us on a ferocious tour of low-end schools, pathetic jobs, and unmade beds. Without artifice or pseudonym, protagonist Myles boldly sets down a rich and graphic account of female experience in the world. SOFT SKULL PRESS \| 978-1-59376-210-0 \| Trade Paper \| $14.95

	Strange as This Weather Has Been A Novel ANN PANCAKE “Ann Pancake’s fine, ambitious first novel is about something simple: what it’s like to live below a mountaintop removal strip mine . . . Pancake . . . makes her point . . . in a powerful, sure-footed and haunting way.” —New York Times Book Review COUNTERPOINT \| 978-1-59376-166-0 \| Trade Paper Original \| $15.95

	Bone Rattler A Mystery of Colonial America ELIOT PATTISON From Edgar Award–winning author Eliot Pattison comes a compelling, multilayered novel rich in historical detail. Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, Duncan McCallum witnesses a series of murders and apparent suicides among fellow Scottish prisoners. A strange trail of clues leads Duncan into the bloody maw of the French and Indian War. COUNTERPOINT \| 978-1-59376-185-1 \| Cloth \| $26.00

	Noir A Novel OLIVIER PAUVERT In a future France, a man finds himself wandering the streets, tormented by a vision of a woman’s bloody corpse and the thought that he may be her murderer. What follows is the man’s quest to know who he is and what he has done, all while evading the secret police. In the spirit of Orwell’s 1984, Noir brings a fascist France to life in a dystopian thriller about identity, politics, and morality. COUNTERPOINT \| 978-1-58243-447-6 \| Trade Paper \| $14.95

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