Algonquin Books imprint: 445 books

A “vivid, unsentimental, powerful” portrait of a Southern marriage by the New York Times–bestselling author of Ellen Foster (Publishers Weekly). She hasn’t been dead four months and I’ve already eaten to the bottom of the deep freeze. I even ate the green peas. Used to I wouldn’t...

A “winning debut . . . Roe’s story feels just right for our desperate and despairing time, when a miracle—any miracle—will do” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). The crowds keep coming. They arrive, all with their own reasons, with doubt or certainty or something in between. More and...

A drought-stricken midwestern town gets some unexpected help in this “warm, whimsical novel full of humor and down-home wisdom” (Jennifer Chiaverini).   It hasn’t rained in a hundred days, it’s hotter than Beelzebub’s oven, and the ground is harder than a cast-iron skillet. The good folks...

Generations of Southern women deal with hard times and heartless men in this “joyous” novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Ellen Foster (The Washington Post Book World). In “a witty and explosive story about men and women, bad girls and good girls, love and laundry,”...

A visit from an angel changes the life of a grieving widower in this “deeply touching love story” by the award-winning author of The Last First Day (Booklist).   In the four months since Conrad Morrissey’s beloved wife, Rose, died, he has let her cherished garden slide into neglect, just as...

A “lively” memoir of a woman finding the cure for her broken heart in the world of ballroom dancing (Booklist).   Maria Finn’s husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then she cried. Then she signed up for tango lessons.   It turned out that tango had a lot to teach about understanding...

“Explores the simmering rage passed through four generations of emotionally stunted southern ‘ladies’ . . . A nearly perfect first novel . . . deeply moving” (Kirkus Reviews).   In 1959, seven-year-old Sarah Grissom is the victim of a prank. Her brother and her cousins pretend there’s...

A young woman from Brooklyn “looks at her rocky childhood growing up with a beautiful, drug-addicted mom” in this remarkable memoir (Vanity Fair).   Felicia Sullivan’s mother disappeared on the night Felicia graduated from college. The daughter would go on to receive an Ivy League education...

A “wondrous” novel of a marriage in the Appalachian Mountains, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Gap Creek (San Antonio Express-News). Ginny and Tom have a lot in common—a love of the land, and fathers who fought in the Civil War. Tom’s father died, but Ginny’s father...

This novel of a Japanese-American family is “a tender tale of secrecy and obligation, introducing us to a Hawaii the tourists never see” (Glamour). When Spencer Fujii’s grandparents arrived in Hawaii at the turn of the twentieth century, they brought Japanese customs with them. Five decades...

A “vividly detailed” memoir of traveling to the formerly forbidden country and exploring life and culture in Hanoi (Kirkus Reviews). For years after the Vietnam War, Americans were unable to visit the country, so once tourist visas became available, young Dana Sachs eagerly applied. Born...

An award-winning author’s reconstruction of her grandmother’s life “takes us deep into the lore of history as well as family” (Sven Birkerts). Even as a child, Suzanne Berne understood the source of her father’s terrible melancholy: He’d lost his mother when he was a little boy....

“An old-fashioned novel . . . Elegantly wrought, hard-headed and tenderhearted about the world of actors and theater” (Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay).   When Robert, Patrick, and Irene met in New York City in the late 1970s,...

A “masterpiece” about a withdrawn husband, a desperate wife, and the young Japanese woman who is hired to break down the walls between them (Robert Goolrick). Thomas Tessler has cloistered himself in his bedroom and shut the world out for the past three years. His wife, Silke, lives right...