Grand Rapids (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

Grand Rapids (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)A new novel from the celebrated author of Surveys, set in the Michigan suburbs of the early 2000s. Installed alongside the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, Alexander Calders public sculpture La Grande Vitesse has come to symbolize the city. Tess moves there from Ypsilanti, Michigan in 2001the same year that her mother dies, when everything begins to move, for her, in slow motion. Thrust into adolescence nearly rudderless, fifteen year

and desire

The displaced House Corrino is plotting to regain the throne while the fanatical Fremen are being provoked into open revolt by the enigmatic figure known only as The Preacher

All he wants to do is make some easy money and try to forget the crime he committed in his hometown

Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers

But Gwen sees the heat in his eyes

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Cut to Bash Henry

Frances Welty

Each piece is a tiny window into a world of colorful creativity

please use a manual sharpener

she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars

you should definitely serve tacos