Counterpoint Fiction & Mystery

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	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

	The Pisstown Chaos A Novel DAVID OHLE The Pisstown Chaos is a novel about disease and forced relocation. Political power seems to be in the hands of Reverend Herman Hooker, an “American Divine” who revels in the people’s suffering as they are “shifted” (separated from—and then randomly coupled with—one another) every five years. Chaos rages as parasitic infections spread and the Reverend spouts platitudes from his Templex headquarters. SOFT SKULL PRESS \| 978-0-97966-367-3 \| Trade Paper Original \| $14.95

	Strange as This Weather Has Been A Novel ANN PANCAKE One of Kirkus Reviews’ Top Ten Fiction Books of 2007, this debut novel offers a harrowing look at a working-class family’s struggle to survive their community’s destruction by mountaintop removal mining. “[Pancake]’s horrors are Biblical, her compassion towering.” —New York Times Book Review “Filled with wisdom and fire and grace.” —Chicago Tribune “Ann Pancake is Appalachia’s Steinbeck.” —Jayne Anne Phillips 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 \| 978-1-58243-464-3 \| Trade Paper \| $14.95

	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 Original \| $14.95

	Woman’s World A Novel GRAHAM RAWLE Painstakingly assembled from 40,000 fragments of text snipped from women’s magazines, this strange and wonderful tale moves at the breakneck pace of a pulp thriller. A stunning visual tour de force, Woman’s World is a powerful reflection on society’s definition of what it means to be a woman. COUNTERPOINT \| 978-1-58243-463-6 \| Trade Paper \| $14.95

	The Border of Truth A Novel VICTORIA REDEL In what Kirkus called a “powerful look into the instinct to both keep and reveal family secrets,” the acclaimed author of Loverboy tells the stories of Sara Leader and her father, Richard. As he flees the Holocaust aboard the Quanza, we hear her tale of adopting a child in the present. Deftly interweaving their two journeys, Redel delivers a riveting novel that treads the line between heartbreak and healing. COUNTERPOINT \| 978-1-58243-406-3 \| Trade Paper \| $14.95

	Twin Study Stories STACEY RICHTER With repulsion and delight, Richter examines the grimy froth of suburban life—high school punk bands, curbside Christmas displays, and college-age binge-drinking. Often scathing, sometimes disturbing, and frequently funny, these stories put offbeat characters—Neanderthals, a bong-sucking Bat Boy, a woman raising a clone of herself—into unexpected situations, leaving the reader somewhere between dreamscape and reality. COUNTERPOINT \| 978-1-58243-393-6 \| Trade Paper \| $14.95

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