In the late seventies, at the age of eighteen and with a seventh-grade education, Dolly Freed wrote Possum Living about the five years she and her father lived off the land on a half-acre lot outside of Philadelphia. MORE >

“Freed presents herself not as a utopian, but as a subversive survivor in a corrupted world, without ideological illusions...a classic of American cantankerousness...”
— from the introduction by David Gates

Vibrant, sexy, and quite possibly crazy, Bernice is determined to reclaim the child she gave up for adoption five years ago. MORE >

“Hot Springs is a road trip layered with desire and mistakes and the impossibility of keeping a secret from rising through the years.”
—Ron Carlson, author of The Signal

New York Times Best-seller

How to Do Nothing literally tells "how to do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself"— real things, fascinating things, the things that you did when you were a kid, or your parents did when they were kids. MORE >

“Every great book reminds us that we're all alone in the world. At least this one provides us with the means to entertain ourselves while we're here.”
— Lemony Snicket

In this stunning story collection inhabited by dreams and disappointments, good intentions and small triumphs, Keith Lee Morris chronicles the lives of men lost in the liminal spaces between adolescence and adulthood.
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“Here are thirteen manic, beautiful stories, each centered around working men, dads, and boys, all of them broken or on the edge of breaking. Each bears witness to fragility, confusion, and beauty. Each is quietly brilliant.”
—Anthony Doerr,
author of The Shell Collector