In The City, an afterlife world inhabited by the recently departed as long as they remain in the memories of the living, Marion and Phillip Byrd find themselves falling in love again after decades of marriage, while on Earth, their da...

Kevin Brockmeier--award -winning author of The Brief History of the Dead--has been widely praised for the richness of his imagination, the lyrical grace and playfulness of his language, and the empathic emotional complexity of his sto...

A little girl named Celia Brooks inexplicably disappears on an ordinary day in March. Four years later, her parents and neighbors gather for a memorial service. Told in a series of stories, this novel is narrated partly by a man with ...

At age twelve, Kevin Brockmeier is ready to become a different person: not the boy he has always been—the one who cries too easily and laughs too easily, who lives in an otherland of sparkling daydreams and imaginary catastrophes—...

What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? From best-selling and award-winning author Kevin Brockmeier: a new novel of stunning artistry and imagination about the wounds we bear and the light that radiates from us all. ...

An award-winning author presents a debut collection of short fiction that features 'These Hands' about a male baby-sitter and his relationship with the young girl in his care, 'A Day in the Life of Half of Rumpelstilskin' that continu...