"After resigning from an adjunct teaching position, our narrator Sebastian Castillo, who shares a name with our author, Sebastian Castillo, and also with a translated Spanish writer, Sebastián Castillo, resolves to spend an entire year without speaking, passing the time by exercising each day and watching self-improvement videos. But, come New Year's Eve, Sebastian (the narrator)-whose rich interiority contemplation alone is curiously and addictively...

"When the Cassidy-Shaws' autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver's seat, with his father, Noah, riding shotgun. In the back seat, tweens Alice and Izzy are on their phones, while their mother, Lorelei, a world leader in the field of artificial intelligence, is absorbed in her work. Yet each family member harbors a secret, implicating them each in the accident. During a weeklong recuperation on...

A lavish, Texas-sized Sweet Sixteen turns deadly in this twisty, pulse-pounding new novel - serving up a fresh take on a classic locked-room whodunnit. Let the festivities begin... Today is Sophie Matthews's sixteenth birthday party, an exclusive black-tie bash in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, where secrets are as deep-rooted as the sprawling live oaks. Sophie's dad has spared no expense, and his renovated cliffside mansion-once thought haunted...

"Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live in: the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a subsistence existence, the books of nineteenth-century philosophy that her father gives her to read in lieu of going to school. Her father is elusive about their pasts, giving Jane little beyond the facts that they once lived in the Bay Area and...

When the invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel owned by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann arrives, it's like the answer to a prayer. Lo Blacklock is ready to reestablish her journalism career, and she hopes that she can snag an interview with Marcus. Unfortunately, he proves to be difficult to pin down. When Lo gets a late-night call asking her to come to Marcus's hotel room, she's greeted by a woman claiming to be Marcus's...

Joan Liang's life is a series of surprising developments: She never thought she would leave Taiwan for California nor did she expect her first marriage to implode--especially as quickly and spectacularly as it did. She definitely did not expect to fall in love with and marry an older, wealthy American and have children with him. Through all this she wrestles with one persistent question: Will she ever feel truly satisfied? As Joan and her children...

"[A] searing family drama set in Kentucky where the homecoming of two half-brothers -- successful Joel with his restless wife Alice, and struggling Emmett -- ignites a clash of ambitions and desires, exposing raw truths about class, privilege, and happiness in the American South. Fulfillment tells the story of two half brothers -- Joel, a successful academic and author, whose marriage is in deep trouble, and his younger sibling Emmett, paralyzed by...

"Jane and Colin are soulmates. He just doesn't know it yet. For twenty-four-year-old Jane, finding love in New York City is even harder than making it as a playwright. So when Jane meets Colin, she can't believe her luck: they're perfect for each other. Even when Colin breaks off their relationship after six dates, Jane knows this is just a stumbling block. She'll get him back. She knows she will. That is, until Colin starts dating Zoe-perfect, luminous...

""Fell down the stairs and woke up a trad wife." Max is thirty, a published poet and grossly overpaid legal counsel for a tech company. With a lifetime of dysphoria and fuccbois rattling around in her head, Max is plagued with a deep dissatisfaction during what should be the best years of her life. After taking a spill down the stairs at a New Year's Eve party, she decides to make some changes. First things first: a stab at good old-fashioned heteronormativity....

"The Labasques aren't like other families. Living in a shack out in the swamps, they made do by hunting down alligators and other animals. To the good people of Jacknife, Louisiana, they are troublemakers and outcasts, the kind of people you wouldn't want in your community. So when Cutter Labasque is found face down in the muddy swamp, no one seems to care, not even her two brothers. The only person who questions the official verdict of suicide is...