The Anger Meridian
Following her husband’s suspicious death, Merryn Huntley flees with her daughter to Mexico, where she discovers she can’t outrun self-deception.
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Kaylie Jones
KAYLIE JONES has published seven books, including a memoir, Lies My Mother Never Told Me, and her most recent novel, The Anger Meridian. Her novel A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries was adapted as a Merchant Ivory film in 1998. Jones has been teaching for more than twenty-five years, and is a faculty member in the Stony Brook Southampton MFA in Creative Writing & Literature program and in Wilkes University’s MFA in Creative Writing program. She is the author of Speak Now and the editor of Long Island Noir. Her newest endeavor is her publishing imprint with Akashic Books, Kaylie Jones Books.
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Long Island Noir
Between these covers, Long Island emerges as a region far more complex and sinister than merely a playground for the rich and famous.
A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries
The novel that inspired the Merchant Ivory film is back in print! With a new author’s introduction and a previously unpublished chapter.
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The Schrödinger Girl
When a young woman appears to split into four different versions of herself, protagonist and behavioral psychologist Garrett Adams must decide what is vision, what is science, and what is delusion.
All Waiting Is Long
The much-anticipated sequel to Barbara J. Taylor’s best-selling debut novel, Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night.
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
In the early 1970s, César Alvarez enlists in the navy to escape a life of crime; while the decision saves him from the streets, it also lands him amid volatile racial tensions at a crucial moment in US history.
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Cape Cod Noir
Malice and mayhem simmer beneath the surface of one of America’s favorite vacation areas.
City Mouse
City Mouse is an irresistible debut that examines what it means to find your place, revealing unspoken truths about motherhood, friendship, and the thorny pursuit to have it all.
Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery
A classic murder mystery set in the 1930s Dust Bowl that portrays the era with great beauty, tenderness, and sorrowful authenticity.
The Ice-Cream Headache and Other Stories
Jones’s only collection of stories is back in print, with a new preface by daughter Kaylie Jones and a brand new study guide.
Inconvenient Daughter
A vibrant and provocative debut novel that dispels myths surrounding transracial adoption.
Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction From Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop
Jamaica’s literary lion Colin Channer presents new fiction from the freshest young Jamaican authors and the Calabash International Literary Festival’s Extended Family.
Kaylie Jones Books (Four Book Set)
For a limited time, purchase Unmentionables, Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night, The Love Book, and Starve the Vulture together for only $25!
Little Beasts
In this evocative debut, the accidental murder of an eight-year-old forces a working-class community to face its demons.
The Love Book
An anti–romantic comedy about the misadventures of four women who meet on a singles’ bike trip.
The Merry Month of May
Classic Jones reissued, with a new preface by National Book Award–winner Larry Heinemann.
Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night
A page-turning debut novel set in Scranton, Pennsylvania, during the height of coal mining, vaudeville, and evangelism.
Some Go Hungry
A gripping portrait of a rural Indiana town still reeling from the unsolved 1980s murder of a gay teen.
Unmentionables
A powerful debut historical novel to launch a new imprint, Kaylie Jones Books, curated by acclaimed author Kaylie Jones.
The Year of Needy Girls
A young boy’s murder unleashes chaos in the life of a schoolteacher and a small New England town.