Counterpoint imprint: 558 books

“Patterson focuses her unflinching eye on the dark heart of American male privilege . . . an important novel, both terrifying and redemptive.” —Jim Gavin, author of Middle Men Life is pretty sweet for Even Hyde. Despite his parents’ divorce in 2001, he’s doing just fine, having chosen...

“In this sprightly collection of 188 short texts, [Aitken] offers brief stories, observations, memories, and commentaries.” —Spirituality & Practice   For more than four decades, Robert Aitken Roshi has taught thousands of people the Buddhist practice of Zen meditation, and has led hundreds...

In 1816, five years after being captured and sold into slavery, Kau, a pygmy tribesman, flees south into the Spanish Florida wilderness, determined to find a place where he can once again live in harmony with nature. Both haunted and driven by his memories of Africa, he embarks on an epic quest through...

**An NPR Best Book of 2017 "A chillingly adroit debut novel." —Elle “Lucky You is a marvel of a book, partly because Carter does a perfect job balancing humor and tragedy . . . As an author, she’s both unsparing and compassionate, and among her greatest gifts is an ability...

**“Subtraction stands out as a high-wire act of the novel form—taut in expression yet rich with humanity, expertly crafted and unfairly neglected.” —The Millions “Robison delivers a sparkling valentine about a Harvard poetess and her great love for a drunken Dean Moriarty type, at...

"Mary Robison's short stories are short, subtle, and substantial . . . Her ironic sense of detail bursts from every sentence." ––Vogue An Amateur's Guide to the Night stands as a perfect example of Mary Robison's beloved narrative style: purposeful, clipped, and devastating in...

"Robison uses a minimalist discipline and barely ruffled surfaces, but her hidden pictures of childhood and other states of vulnerability are boundless in their emotion." —The Los Angeles Times Book Review The eleven stories in Believe Them, most of which first appeared in The New...

The first story collection from acclaimed southern California writer Victoria Patterson since 2009's Drift Author an active and well-connected member of the California literary scene, and we expect strong event and festival appearances throughout the state and along the west coast Patterson's...

This hilarious, sometimes harrowing, and ultimately heartening novel is the companion to the critically acclaimed, national bestseller Perfect Agreement "Beautifully and economically written, and very funny." —Linda Wertheimer, NPR This is your chance to enroll in English...

Karl Muhlbach, hero of Evan Connell’s previous novel, The Connoisseur, has a new obsession-a beautiful, nubile girl-about-New York named Lambeth Brent, whose puzzling background and swinging activities lead Muhlbach into dark areas, causing new revelations of himself as a man to emerge. The...

“A splendid chronicle of early climbing in the Sierra Nevada.” —Royal Robbins It’s 1873. Gore-Tex shells and aluminum climbing gear are a century away, but the high mountains still call to those with a spirit of adventure. Imagine the stone in your hands and thousands of feet of open...

Our planet is approaching a critical environmental juncture. Across the globe we continue to deplete the five pools of carbon – soil, wood, coal, oil, and natural gas – at an unsustainable rate. We’ve burned up half the planet’s known reserves of oil – one trillion barrels – in less than a...

“A bracing look at the often-strange relationship between sexuality and the legal system over six tumultuous decades” (Booklist). Society’s acceptance of sex and the grasp of its many variables are in constant flux. Switch a decade, cross a border, or traverse class lines and the harmless...

“Intense, complicated short stories about intense, complicated people . . . A seasoned, deeply knowing writer with riches to share” (Kirkus Reviews).   With her keen eye, her fabulous ear and her generous heart, Valerie Trueblood finds characters in moments of true extremity when they are...