<div>In this &ldquo;powerful debut novel,&rdquo; an American relief worker falls in love with the Ivory Coast as the country descends into civil war (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). In an Ivory Coast village where Christians and Muslims are squaring off for war, against a backdrop of bloody conflict and vibrant African life, Jack Diaz&mdash;an American relief worker&mdash;and Mamadou, his village guardian, learn that hate knows no color and that true heroism waits where we least expect it. During lulls in the violence, Jack learns the cycles of Africa&mdash;of hunting in the rain forest, cultivating the yam, and navigating the nuances of the language; of witchcraft, storytelling, and chivalry. Despite the omnipresence of AIDS, he courts a stunning Peul girl, meets his neighbor&rsquo;s wife in the darkened forest, and desperately pursues the village flirt. Still, Jack spends many nights alone in his hut, longing for love in a place where his skin color excludes him. Brimming with dangerous passions and the pressures of life in a time of war, Whiteman is a stunning debut and a tale of desire, isolation, humor, action, and fear.</div>

Whiteman

<div>A young family man caught in the Great Recession turns to running marijuana cross-country to make ends meet in this &ldquo;timely, witty, and fast-paced&rdquo; novel (Booklist). James and Kate are golden children of the late twentieth century, flush with opportunity. But an economic downturn and an unexpected pregnancy have them desperate to find a way to make do. And they happen to have a friend in California&rsquo;s Siskiyou County who grows prime-grade marijuana. If James transports just one load from Cali to Florida, he&rsquo;ll pull down enough cash to survive for months. And so begins the life of a drug mule. Fans of Breaking Bad will love this page-turning, Zeitgeist-capturing novel that plunges into the criminal underworld with little chance to take a breath. Mule is about people whose morals are tested by unbearable financial stress, trying to survive when the American Dream that had once been handed to them&mdash;fully wrapped and ready to go at the takeout window&mdash;suddenly vanishes from the menu. &ldquo;A smart and bracing ground-level exploration of the drug trade.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;Thanks to its wicked style and pacing, Mule lets me forget I&rsquo;m reading serious literature while I follow its terrifying story into the land of the all-American damned.&rdquo; &mdash;Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air &ldquo;Mule is swift, taut, and relentless . . . A rip-roaring drug tale.&rdquo; &mdash;Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies &ldquo;With adrenaline-infused sentences and a seat-gripping story line, Mule is a novel that illuminates contemporary American desperation, both its dangerous precipices and its thrilling, overwhelming freedom.&rdquo; &mdash;Dean Bakopoulos, author of My American Unhappiness</div>

Mule

<div>&ldquo;The saga of an Indian family steeped in tradition trying to find its niche in the suburbs of Chicago . . . Engrossing&rdquo; (Booklist). &ldquo;Funny and romantic and heartbreaking&rdquo; (St. Petersburg Times), this novel is narrated by Francisco D&rsquo;Sai, a firstborn son of a firstborn son&mdash;all the way back to the beginning of a long line of proud Konkans, the so-called &ldquo;Jews of India,&rdquo; who abandoned their Hindu traditions, knelt before Vasco da Gama&rsquo;s sword and Saint Francis Xavier&rsquo;s cross, and became Catholics. In Chicago in the early 1970s, Francisco&rsquo;s Konkan father, Lawrence, wants desperately to assimilate into American culture&mdash;pursuing a corporate job and launching an uphill battle to join the local country club. But Francisco&rsquo;s American mother, Denise, a Peace Corps veteran who finds the suburbs utterly boring, wants to preserve the family&rsquo;s heritage, feeding Francisco&rsquo;s imagination with proud visions of India and Konkan history&mdash;with enthusiastic help from her recently arrived brother-in-law. Sometimes it seems like she&rsquo;s more excited about her husband&rsquo;s background and culture than about her marriage. From the author of Whiteman, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize, this is a witty, wrenching portrait of generational, cultural, marital, and historical conflict, seen through one family&rsquo;s experience. &ldquo;[A] savvy storyteller with a clear, soulful voice.&rdquo; &mdash;Entertainment Weekly &ldquo;D&rsquo;Souza&rsquo;s compelling tale of one extended family&rsquo;s trials and triumphs in a foreign land is an astute glimpse of the challenges, dangers, and rewards of assimilation.&rdquo; &mdash;The Boston Globe</div>

Tony D'Souza
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Whiteman

Mule

The Konkans

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