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SOUTHLAND
by Nina Revoyr

348 pages, a trade paperback original, $15.95, ISBN: 1-888451-41-6
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“If Oprah still had her book club, this novel likely would be at the top of her list…With prose that is beautiful, precise, but never pretentious…”

—Booklist

“
Southland
merges elements of literature and social history with the propulsive drive of a mystery, while evoking Southern California as a character, a key player in the tale. Such aesthetics have motivated other Southland writers, most notably Walter Mosley.”

—Los Angeles Times

ADIOS MUCHACHOS
by Daniel Chavarría

245 pages, a trade paperback original, $13.95, ISBN: 1-888451-16-5 *Winner of the E
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“Out of the mystery wrapped in an enigma that, over the last forty years, has been Cuba for the U.S., comes a Uruguayan voice so cheerful, a face so laughing, and a mind so deviously optimistic that we can only hope this is but the beginning of a flood of Latin America’s indomitable novelists, playwrights, storytellers. Welcome, Daniel Chavarría.”

—Donald Westlake, author of
Trust Me on This

HAIRSTYLES OF THE DAMNED
by Joe Meno

290 pages, a trade paperback original, $13.95, ISBN: 1-888451-70-X *P
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“Joe Meno writes with the energy, honesty, and emotional impact of the best punk rock. From the opening sentence to the very last word,
Hairstyles of the Damned
held me in his grip.”

—Jim DeRogatis, pop music critic,
Chicago Sun-Times

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