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Evelina Galang\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNovember 5, 2013 • 5.5 x 7.5 • 343 pages • 978-1-56689-333-6\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eAngel leaves Manila for snowy Chicago, taking a tradition of protest—and some old family hurts—with her.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAngel has just lost her father, and her mother’s grief means she might as well be gone too. She’s got a sister and a grandmother to look out for, and a burgeoning consciousness of the unfairness in the world—in her family, her community, and her country.  Set against the backdrop of the 1986 Philippine People Power Revolution, the struggles of surviving Filipina “Comfort Women” of WWII in the early 1990s, and a cold winter’s season in the city of Chicago is the story of a daughter coming of age, coming to forgiveness, and learning to move past the chaos of grief to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eM. Evelina Galang is the author of \u003cem\u003eHer Wild American Self, One Tribe,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAngel de la Luna and the 5th Glorious Mystery,\u003c\/em\u003e as well as editor of the anthology \u003cem\u003eScreaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images.\u003c\/em\u003e Galang currently directs and teaches the Creative Writing Program at the University of Miami and works with the VONA\/Voices: Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation. She has been named one of the most influential Filipinas in the United States by the Filipina Women’s Network.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThanks to a 2013 ADA Access Improvement Grant administered by \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vsamn.org\/\"\u003eVSA Minnesota\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e for the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, this title is also formatted for screen readers which make text accessible to the blind and visually impaired. To purchase this title for use with a screen reader please email us at \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:info@coffeehousepress.org\"\u003einfo@coffeehousepress.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed a “Best Feminist Book for Young Adults“ on the 2014 Amelia Bloomer List\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Angel’s] intimate storytelling style will appeal to teenage readers and adults. Galang draws us into a foreign world with beautifully rendered sketches. . . . But despite such poetic descriptions, Angel is an authentic teen, who texts her friends and likes to bang on drums, just like her musician father.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Miami Herald \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In an interview, she has stated that she wrote this story when hurricanes disrupted the writing of a nonfiction account of the lives of wartime ‘comfort women’ survivors. That legacy—of creation and life in the heart of destruction—survives in this fine novel, Coffee House Press's first in the YA genre.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Galang’s (\u003cem\u003eOne Tribe\u003c\/em\u003e) writing is ethereal and immersive. . . . Angel is hyperaware of her world and steeped in social consciousness; following her as she seeks her 'true nature' is a pleasure and an education.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A raw and scathing exploration of the challenges faced by immigrant adolescents.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Adolescence, family issues, music and revolutionary politics all sink sharp hooks into a Filipino teenager at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Related with a rich mixture of English, ‘Taglish’ and Tagalog dialogue, Angel’s tale . . . is a vivid portrait of a culture, with particular focus on its women.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Kirkus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“M. Evelina Galang’s incredible book hits intersectionality on the nose for young readers.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—BuzzFeed\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“For Angel, coming of age and growing into her activist spirit are intertwined in ways that are both powerful and challenging.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Bustle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Galang’s] novel is deeply grounded in Angel’s Filipina experience, with Tagalog words and ‘Taglish’ hybrids dropped in the text in the natural places bilingual speakers might use them. Yet it’s a story built on a universal template: a mother and teen daughter who don’t understand each other in the moment.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Angel’s story shows the struggles of a young woman who tries to keep it together as everything she has known and loved slowly slips away from her grasp. . . . [She] is never afraid to take a stand—something individuals of all ages can aspire to do.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNorthwest Asian Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Galang’s writing is lyrical and rich—something to savor . . . This is a book not to be missed.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRich in Color\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With YA fiction titles being so strongly tilted toward the paranormal and the speculative, M. Evelina Galang’s \u003cem\u003eAngel de La Luna and the 5th Glorious Mystery\u003c\/em\u003e provides a refreshing change of pace in the field with its focus on its young, rebellious, and spirited titular protagonist. . . . Galang’s novel complicates the ethnoracial bildungsroman, revealing the tortuous trajectory of young and older migrants and the hauntings that come with transnational movements.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eAsian American Lit Fans\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAngel de la Luna\u003c\/em\u003e is a poetic coming-of-age story about personal loss and the transformative power of political activism. . . . 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Its particular triumph is to give an intimate voice to radical themes: a young woman sees the immigrant’s American dream through the lens of Third World activism and gives us startling ways of looking and words for seeing the world.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Gina Apostol\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAngel de la Luna\u003c\/em\u003e is pure poetry, a heart-rending story told by a young girl whom I would follow anywhere. The voice is pitch-perfect; the music, a constant. In this collision of cultures and languages, of the deepest sorrows, M. Evelina Galang has found resounding beauty. I want to shower her and her book with rose petals!” \u003cstrong\u003e—Cristina Garcia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A poignant and well-crafted coming-of-age novel set in Manila and Chicago, \u003cem\u003eAngel de la Luna and the 5th Glorious Mystery\u003c\/em\u003e is about a Filipino family’s and, in a larger picture, their native country’s, fractured past and present. Above all, it is about the indomitable spirit of a young woman that guides her out of grief and longing, and fuels her with renewed strength to continue her struggle against injustices.” \u003cstrong\u003e—R. Zamora Linmark\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A richly detailed novel full of music and color, \u003cem\u003eAngel de la Luna and the 5th Glorious Mystery\u003c\/em\u003e tells a story of difficult journeys: from innocence to experience, from life in the Philippines to life in the United States, and from longing through anger and back to love again. 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Through Raicovich’s beautifully expressed perceptions and ponderings, we get a sense of what it is to be at the remote, untamed expanse of New Mexico’s western landscape that holds this iconic piece of land art.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Afterimage\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAt the Lightning Field\u003c\/em\u003e is very much in line with what I think writing can and should do around art . . .” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—ArtNews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A slim but powerful primer on viewership, \u003cem\u003eAt the Lightning Field\u003c\/em\u003e is as enlightening as it is pleasurable to read. 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Observing that “what is alive in the body clock is also ticking,” her poems and sketches illustrate the infinite possibilities unfurling as minutes give shape to hours, the body gives shape to a child, and events give shape to history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elenisikelianos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEleni Sikelianos\u003c\/a\u003e is the author of six books of poetry, most recently \u003cem\u003eThe Loving Detail of the Living and the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe California Poem,\u003c\/em\u003e which was a Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Best of the Year, as well as hybrid memoirs, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Jon\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eYou Animal Machine\u003c\/em\u003e (The Golden Greek). Sikelianos teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Denver. 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This book is a tour-de-force of sound and hope, a brainy unraveling of enigma to reveal the enigmas underneath.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Cole Swensen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One enjoys standing at the sink with Sikelianos. Noticing, perhaps beauty, perhaps decay.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—California Journal of Poetics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Part planetary book of confinement, part cosmic baby book, she fills this vivid account with the mindfulness, playfulness, and lyric intensity of a poet in the center of her bloom.”\u003cstrong\u003e —C.D. 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But Elizabeth Etters’s present is filled with complex choices and her past with even more persistent questions. Whether about the McCarthy era of her Communist Party parents or her contemporary relationship with a young artist, \u003cem\u003eBone Truth\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel of reconciliation, failure, love, courage, compromise, and passion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnne Finger is the author of \u003cem\u003eBone Truth.\u003c\/em\u003e She has also written \u003cem\u003eElegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Polio; Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth;\u003c\/em\u003e and a short story collection, \u003cem\u003eBasic Skills.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003e“Finger’s debut novel is marked by lyrical, searing prose that evokes the strength, influence, and fragility of memory. 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This troubling topic, seemingly alien to a poetic sensibility, is indicative of Equi’s reach into the future. She also keeps the past magically alive.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrooklyn Rail\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Equi’s newest collection is punchy and fast paced; saturated with an urban tang (‘You Know the Type \/\/ A NY guy \/ in an NY hat \/ walking an NY dog’). 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The poems in this book are both spooky and spoofy. Eventually we realize that, despite its campy, B-movie trappings, the monster (our world) is real. We realize this gradually because of Equi’s light touch. Like Muhammed Ali, she floats while stinging.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Rae Armantrout\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElaine Equi, author of \u003cem\u003eClick and Clone\u003c\/em\u003e (Coffee House Press, 2011), was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and raised in Chicago and its outlying suburbs. In 1988, she moved to New York City with her husband poet Jerome Sala. Over the years, her witty, aphoristic, and innovative work has become nationally and internationally known. Her last book, \u003cem\u003eRipple Effect: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems,\u003c\/em\u003e was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and on the short list for Canada’s prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong her other titles are \u003cem\u003eSurface Tension, Decoy, Voice-Over,\u003c\/em\u003e which won the San Francisco State University Poetry Center Award, and \u003cem\u003eThe Cloud of Knowable Things.\u003c\/em\u003e Widely published and anthologized, her work has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker, Poetry,\u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eAmerican Poetry Review,\u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eNation,\u003c\/em\u003e and numerous volumes of the \u003cem\u003eBest American Poetry.\u003c\/em\u003e She teaches at New York University, and in the MFA Programs at the New School and the City College of New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003e“This is exceedingly delicate work, infused with a sly and bawdy sense of humor, and when she’s on, she’s one of the best.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Equi’s second collection emerges as a provocative mixture of postmodern eclecticism and graceful wit. . . . 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A Pushcart-prize winning writer and editor, Kitchen writes crystalline prose about the human connection to both built and natural environments. Blended with intelligent speculation on national history and literary legacy, these exquisite pieces contain tender and lucidly detailed homage’s to Fred Astaire’s hands, Kitchen’s aging father, the color blue, and familiar and dreamed-about places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJudith Kitchen first book was \u003cem\u003eOnly the Dance: Essays on Time and Memory,\u003c\/em\u003e from University of South Carolina Press. She is the editor of two Norton anthologies of creative nonfiction and has won a Pushcart Prize, an Anhinga Prize, and a NEA Fellowship. 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Inada is the author of five books: \u003cem\u003eLegends from Camp, Drawing the Line, In This Great Land of Freedom, Just Into\/Nations\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBefore the War.\u003c\/em\u003e He is the editor of three important volumes, including the acclaimed \u003cem\u003eOnly What We Could Carry: The Japanese-American Internment Experience.\u003c\/em\u003e On two previous occasions, in 1972 and 1985, Professor Inada won Poetry Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and his work has appeared in The Best American Poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to these individual publications, Inada has written critical introductions to a number of works, such as \u003cem\u003eJohn Okada’s No-No Boy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003e“Despite its often somber subjects, which include the World War II internment of the poet and other Japanese Americans, this is a joy-filled book. 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Her novel and essays have been translated into many languages and her work has appeared in publications including the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times, Granta,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMcSweeney’s.\u003c\/em\u003e Some of her recent projects include a ballet libretto for the choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, performed by the New York City Ballet in Lincoln Center in 2010; a pedestrian sound installation for the Serpentine Gallery in London; and a novella in installments for workers in a juice factory in Mexico. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThanks to a 2013 ADA Access Improvement Grant administered by \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vsamn.org\/\"\u003eVSA Minnesota\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e for the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, this title is also formatted for screen readers which make text accessible to the blind and visually impaired. 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This elegant novel speaks to the transience of reality. The elusive strands of the young woman and Owen’s narratives intertwine and blur together as Luiselli plays with the idea of time and identity with grace and intuition.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Publishers Weekly,\u003c\/em\u003e boxed review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A lovely and mysterious first novel. . . . The multilayered book she has devised brings freshness and excitement to such complex inquiries.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Wall Street Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Throughout \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd, \u003c\/em\u003eLuiselli crafts beautiful sentences, while gleefully thumbing her nose at novelistic conventions. All that makes her an exciting and essential voice on the Latin American literary landscape, as further evidenced by the nonfiction collection her U.S. publisher, Coffee House Press, is simultaneously releasing with her essays in \u003cem\u003eSidewalks\u003c\/em\u003e are a wonderful contribution to the long tradition by which authors re-imagine their cities as dream-like spaces created for them to wander around, daydream and discover.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Los Angeles Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“A masterwork of fractured identities and shifting realities, \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e is a lyric meditation on love, mortality, ghosts, and the desire to transform our human wreckage into art, to be saved by creation. Valeria Luiselli is a stunning and singular voice. Her work burns with an urgency that demands our attention. Read her. Right now.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Laura Van Den Berg, \u003cem\u003eThe Isle of Youth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If every word, for her, has the shadow of two others behind it, and if every city in which she lives carries the ghostly afterimage of all the other cities she has known—as well as the voices of the writers she has researched upon her arrival—then her books become all the more enthralling for the multiplicity they champion. . . . The great beauty of her art is seeing all her contrasting stories collapse or blend or combine into an unexpected whole.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Valeria Luiselli draws readers assuredly into a meditation on time, place and identity as if she were expertly kneading dough.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Valeria Luiselli’s \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e is like nothing I’ve read in a while. . . . Its musings on obsession and ambition are haunting, and its sense of place is fantastic.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Electric Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Today, she’s one of the hottest authors around. Her first work, \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd,\u003c\/em\u003e and its companion essay collection, \u003cem\u003eSidewalks,\u003c\/em\u003e are both hits with critics.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eOzy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A mother in Mexico City starts writing a novel, and then the novel sort of becomes her life. (Pair with strong coffee.)” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Bustle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Luiselli delivers a telling image of modern time.”\u003cem\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Literature and Arts of the Americas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e is a scaffolding that bounds the empty spaces into which the writer and the reader of the novel can insert their imagination. . . . It is empty attention, if not the amazement, of the read and the writer.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Electric Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Valeria Luiselli’s swirling, layered novel, \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e, shares this ‘tell what it was like’ quality.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eMissouri Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Well-crafted, playful even as it touches on the very serious. . . . [\u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e is] an impressively substantial work, in every sense.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eComplete Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e is one of those rare books that manages to upend one’s idea of what might be possible in fiction.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Electric Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e] paints a truly believable and empathetic and insightful portrait of life. It grabs hold of and dissects and analyzes life in all of its multifaceted glory and misery and whatever falls in between.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThree Percent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“‘Valeria Luiselli’s extraordinary debut novel \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e signals the arrival of major talent,’ said Jeremy Ellis of Houston’s Brazos Bookstore. ‘Written in Spanish and exquisitely translated by Christina MacSweeney, \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e is a fresh and essential voice for the new Latin-American canon.’” \u003cstrong\u003e—American Booksellers Association\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“‘Prose is for those with a builder’s spirt.’ What a nice line. And what good fortune that we now have Valeria Luiselli’s prose in the States.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Propeller Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There’s an urgency to this book that I found both challenging and engaging—as the reality of the narrative crumbled, and as the characters became their own ghosts, the feeling of loss that Luiselli is trying to explore began to resemble my own.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eAmerican Microreviews and Interivews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Valeria Luiselli’s debut—translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney—is a book whose ingenious formal structure preserves this strenuous negotiation between the contrary impulses to expose and hide away.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—­­Make Literary Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Her fiction is shaped by sophisticated plotting, playful characterization, and mesmerizing momentum. Reminiscent of Roberto Bolano and Andre Gide, Luiselli navigates a dynamic, ghostly world between worlds, crisscrossing fact and fiction. Few books are as sure to baffle, surprise, and reward readers as the strange, shifty experiment that is Luiselli’s fiction debut.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is just one of three stories that weaves its way through Valeria Luiselli’s masterful \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e, a novel in which people die many times just to wake up right where they left off.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—The Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fragmentary and fantastical. . . . Emotional density, laser-cut prose, self-conscience autobiography mixed with invention, and jigsaw-puzzle storylines that gradually assemble themselves to reveal an unpredictable whole.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e by Valeria Luiselli is a masterfully structured meta-fictional story. . . . This is a novel about writing at its core, that’s intriguing and entertaining through all its structual complexities.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e­ —The Review Lab\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In publishing [\u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e], a novel about a translator living in Mexico City, and Luiselli’s superb collection of essays, \u003cem\u003eSidewalks\u003c\/em\u003e, Coffee House has helped push into the world a great writer who everybody should know about.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Flavorwire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Luiselli’s debut grabs three strands of narration and twists them into a single, psychogeographical thread. Imagine Teju Cole’s \u003cem\u003eOpen City\u003c\/em\u003e or Ben Lerner’s \u003cem\u003eLeaving the Atocha Station\u003c\/em\u003e; as a debut novel, it’s that good.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Flavorwire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e is the greatest of all things: a novel meant to be reread.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e­ —The Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Luiselli’s] writing blurs the line between life and death across three narratives that overlap in content and time. . . . You’ll fall into the pages and believe the connections between people-ghosts or not-to be true.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Hazel \u0026amp; Wren\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A multi-angled portrait of the artist as a young woman, as a con artist, as a young mother and wife, this book immerses the reader in the most enchanting and persuasive intimacy. The fearless, half-mad imagination of youth has rarely been so freshly, charmingly and unforgettably portrayed. Valeria Luiselli is a precociously masterful and entirely original new writer.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Francisco Goldman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is one of those books that I fell for after the first six pages. . . . Luiselli handles this stream-of-consciousness style with charm and mastery, making the story of love, identity, art, and ghosts unforgettable.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Book Riot\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e was] so surprising and so exhilarating that I read it twice during the past week.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Seeing the World Through Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Luiselli sketches a rich and enthralling world.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Public Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Luiselli’s spare and probing essays touch on a variety of subjects and are unified by a capacious imagination.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—SFGate\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Debut novel [\u003cem\u003eFaces \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ein the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e] has gotten a ton of praise in all the right places, and the reviews have piqued my curiosity.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Book Blog \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Valeria Luiselli’s \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most mesmerizing debut novels in recent memory.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Diesel Bookstore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Valeria Luiselli, a young writer from Mexico City, who shows here an incredibly nuanced control over details and time.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Green Apple on the Park Bookstore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A shining star of 2014. . . . Brilliant and beautiful.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Brazos Bookstore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I found myself dog-earing pages throughout to go back and make notes on . . . until I realized I was marking pretty much every single page.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Brazos Bookstore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Valeria Luiselli’s extraordinary debut novel \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e signals the arrival of major talent. The novel’s fragmented, poetic narrative immediately engages and slowly reveals its secrets. Is this a story about a woman discovering a forgotten Latin poet of the Harlem Renaissance? Is the woman imagined by the poet? Are they both ghosts in search of some way back to the real? Written in Spanish, and exquisitely translated by Christina MacSweeney, \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e is a fresh and essential voice for the new Latin-American canon.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Jeremy Ellis, Brazos Bookstore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book is pretty short and fueled by cigarettes and coffee, so you’ll probably motor through it and want some more. You’re in luck because Luiselli wrote a fantastic book of essays, \u003cem\u003eSidewalks\u003c\/em\u003e, released at the same time. Go on a bender and read them back to back. You won’t regret it.”­ \u003cstrong\u003e—Brooke, Brazos Bookstore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I’d loved every page of Valeria Luiselli’s novel. . . . \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e highlights the question [of identity] more vividly, more urgently, than any novel I’ve read in recent years.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Full Stop\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most original new voices in translation.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Words Without Borders\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[In \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e] three timelines snuggle up alongside one another in a neat, poetic fashion. . . . This feels like a book which has been woven as much as written.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e­­ —Doe-eyed Critic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Perhaps Luiselli’s true gift is that these essays still manage to be filled with a sense of hope . . . [and] an ability to find the beauty in destruction, acceptance in the face of crumbling cities and inadequate words.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Publik\/Private\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Valeria Luiselli’s hallucinatory novel follows a young academic drawn to the life of the early 20th-century poet Gilbert Owen. What begins as obsession takes a surreal turn, and the two narratives begin to influence and haunt each other.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—OZY\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Luiselli’s debut novel is brilliantly conceived and executed examination of the ways the past infiltrates the present and how art bleeds into life.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Racked\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An outstanding, cerebral read that bridges the gap between poetry and prose and clearly positions the author as one of the freshest, most exciting new voices emerging from Latin American literature.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Entropy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful piece of writing, elegant, poignant and light when it needs to be.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Tony’s Reading List\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In its supremely casual and confident treatment of Self and Other, of Fact and Fiction—the way it makes non-issues out of both—\u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e is something new, something revolutionary.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Fiction Advocate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Translasted from Spanish, \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e by Valeria Luiselli has a lyrical cadence to it. It moves in hazy, dreamlike moments rather than scenes. . . . In Luiselli’s narrative experimentation, we find gravitas in her character’s confusion.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Grantland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Everybody should read \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e. Read it for Luiselli’s language. Read it for the masterly translation by MacSweeney. . . . More people need to read \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSidewalks\u003c\/em\u003e.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Three Percent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Audacious, conceptually cutting edge.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Three Percent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Valeria Luiselli’s \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the year’s most striking and cleverly written novels, a debut that heralds the arrival of a promising literary voice.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Largehearted Boy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Luiselli’s fascinating novel is quite occupied with the hidden pauses between paragraphs. . . . \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e is very much a cousin to Jenny Offill’s excellent novel, \u003cem\u003eDept. of Speculation\u003c\/em\u003e, in a way that it coaxes the reader to fixate on the asterisks between the short sections.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Reluctant Habits\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e is a subtle, sophisticated examination of identity, authenticity, and poetry. The narrator, a young married writer and mother of two, shares her struggles to write a novel about an obscure Mexican poet and the novel in progress, while remembering the time her life when she became obsessed with him. Luiselli braids the three narrative currents into a brilliant meditation on the nature of creation. Translation hoax. Ghosts on the subway. The demonstrative vocabulary of a clever toddler. The mix of fact and fiction on the page and in the mind. With her first novel, Luiselli has established herself as a brilliant explorer of voice, self, and art.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Josh Cook, Porter Square Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“Luiselli weaves together her own philosophy . . . with the novel’s predilection for subterranean encounters in a way that feels deft, not contrived.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Quarterly Conversation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“Masterful. 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Reading this novel is like diving under the surface of the ocean, and sinking, deeper and deeper, until you are somehow deposited back on dry land.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Heavy Feather Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The language ranges from frank gallows humor to unexpectedly devastating, as if you’re at a party exchanging sarcastic witticisms with a stranger and then she suddenly hits you over the head with a brick.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—The Rejectionist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“For all the weightiness of its subject matter, \u003cem\u003eFish in Exile\u003c\/em\u003e is also surprisingly light on its feet: eccentric, absurd, and delightfully wry. 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Like many poets in our time, Juliana Leslie uses collaged fragments to build small poems and stanzas that test the potential for language to communicate before it is understood (as T.S. Eliot put it). What makes Leslie different from many poets in our time is her way of imbuing the poem with wonder and awe—this is not the disenchanted modern poet! Shakespeare, Odysseus, George Herbert, Longinus: these are her companions, as refreshing and freshening in the course of a mundane day as herbs in a garden. ‘Green,’ then, refers as much to the balms that poets provide as to the balsalm of the natural world.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnge Mlinko, National Poetry Series judge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“‘If you are not being undone \/ you are not living outside,’ writes Juliana Leslie in her second astonishing book of poems. \u003ci\u003eGreen Is for World\u003c\/i\u003e is a primer for how a poet might map the imagination. 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Curious and attentive, these poems somehow seem to disentangle the details while simultaneously inventing a new condensary, as Leslie writes, ‘Whatever the eye swallows \/ is likely to rise up \u0026amp; come back.’” \u003cb\u003e—Joshua Marie Wilkinson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Juliana Leslie’s exciting new book is constantly opening up and breaking into light, revelation, and sound. \u003ci\u003eGreen is for World\u003c\/i\u003e is a surprising book, wonderously achieved and lovingly composed.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Gizzi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Within the flickering bounds of an almost-still life, or a lumpy window, or perhaps more like a conversation with heat, Juliana Leslie’s \u003ci\u003eGreen is for World\u003c\/i\u003e is rife with the finely-noised intimacy I might encounter in a room occupied by paintings that have been freed from the confines of light. 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