The King Is Always Above the People
Stories
LONGLISTED for the 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
An urgent, essential collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the MacArthur "genius" and award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles.
Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcón’s hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories with high stakes. In "The Thousands," people are on the move and forging new paths; hope and heartbreak abound. A man deals with the fallout of his blind relatives' mysterious deaths and his father's mental breakdown and incarceration in "The Bridge." A gang member discovers a way to forgiveness and redemption…
$29.99
October 30, 2018
Daniel Alarcón is the author of the collection The King Is Always Above the People, longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction, the novel At Night We Walk in Circles, which was a finalist for the 2014 PEN-Faulkner Award, as well as the story collection War by Candlelight and the novel Lost City Radio. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Granta, n+1, and Harpers, and he was named one of the New Yorker's "20 under 40" and a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship. He is Executive Producer of Radio Ambulante, and teaches at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York.
The Memory Palace
Nate DiMeo
The King Is Always Above the People
Daniel Alarcón
The Book of Emma Reyes
Emma Reyes; Translated with an Introduction by Daniel Alarcón
City of Clowns
Daniel Alarcón, Sheila Alvarado
At Night We Walk in Circles
Daniel Alarcón
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
Homesickness
Colin Barrett
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
A Minor Chorus
Billy-Ray Belcourt
The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl
A Great Country
Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Until August
Gabriel García Márquez
The Maid's Secret
Nita Prose
The Golden Doves
Martha Hall Kelly
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
Nobody Asked for This
Georgia Toews
Flesh
David Szalay
Curiosities
Anne Fleming
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
Helen Simonson
Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Homesickness
Colin Barrett
Coexistence
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Dance of the Happy Shades
Alice Munro
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Shashi Bhat
Normal Rules Don't Apply
Kate Atkinson
Last Woman
Carleigh Baker
Old Babes in the Wood
Margaret Atwood
The Goodbye Cat
Hiro Arikawa, Translated by Philip Gabriel
Uncertain Kin
Janice Lynn Mather
Sans Souci
Dionne Brand
Games and Rituals
Katherine Heiny
Animal Person
Alexander MacLeod
Stray Dogs
Rawi Hage