New in April: Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto and Vanishing Point

Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto by Maile Chapman
“Rural Finland may not seem a very likely locale for a gripping intellectual thriller, but pulling this off is
merely the first of Maile Chapman’s many accomplishments here. Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto—what a title!—is as creepy as Patricia Highsmith at her best and as psychologically sharp (and confounding) as early Ian McEwan. With its portrayal of how quickly the conscience in shipwreck succumbs to delusion, Chapman has written more than a beautifully observed and utterly convincing first novel: she has written something of unfakeable importance.”

Vanishing Point by Ander Monson
“[Ander Monson] turns the banality of nonfiction inside out and thereby makes nonfiction a staging area to investigate claims of fact and truth, an extremely rich theater for exploring the most serious ontological questions. . . . Vanishing Point argues for the demolition of the neat resolution of much memoir at the same time it embodies in its very form and freedom the literary and existential excitement of which the open-ended essay is capable.”