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College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.

"One of my favorite writers in the world." —George Saunders From the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, the uproarious and brilliantly inventive new novel from Max Porter. Enter Lynette—actor, writer, director, showrunner and star of the final film in her head—is it a comedy, a...

Vienna, 1904. The body of a man—still sitting in a chair—is discovered in an abandoned piano factory on the outskirts of the city. He has been shot dead but his face has been horribly disfigured with acid, making identification impossible. In front of the body are three chairs positioned...

From critically acclaimed, award-winning author Andrew Sean Greer comes a story like no other. Max Tivoli is uniquely cursed. His mind ages normally, but he is born with the withered body of a 70-year-old man-and his body ages in reverse. Despite this torment, Max manages three times to cross...

The life of Marcus Johnson was simple and honorable. A United States Marine Lance Corporal with aspirations for the future. This is all changed when one simple mission turns into a slaughter.