Trigger Warning

Trigger WarningA new novel about the enduring trauma of police brutality by the award winning author of Mother Country Shed gotten no trigger warning. And her entire life, she wanted to scream now, had deserved a trigger warning. Early in life, Ruth survived a series of devastating events: Her little brother died from a childhood illness, her mother died of grief, and then her father was shot by the police right in front of their home. In the years following her

squander his legacy

and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband

THE ASSISTANT

Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape

” –AV Club

Epic and intimate

an intelligence able to evolve beyond human understanding or control

Cat Lacey has spent a decade clawing her family out of poverty

he can’t deny it: Something’s happening to his brain

two-bit pornographers

Lies upon lies

Helena’s fight—to protect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds of her former self—is just beginning