David Mitchell

A meditative novel of a young boy on the cusp of adulthood follows a single year in the life of thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor as he grows up in what is for him the sleepiest village in Worcestershire, England, in 1982. By the aauthor of Cloud Atlas. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

Black Swan Green

Kat Albanese

The earth’s a door, if you press your ear against it.

The world’s a headmaster who works on your faults.

Probably is a word with an emergency ejector seat.

People say your ears burn when people are talking about you, but I get a hum in the cellar of my stomach… Writing buries this hum.

“Like I always say, ‘A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met yet.’”

Bollucks. I’ve never met the Yorkshire Ripper, but he wouldn’t be a friend.

If you show someone something you’ve written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin and say, “When you’re ready.”

Dancing’s a brain that dancers are only cells of. Dancers think they’re in charge, but they’re obeying ancient orders.

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