The Next

The NextOne of Library Journal's "Best Books of 2016"A Best 35 Over 35 PickBlogcritics Best Fiction of the Year"A novel so startlingly original and so unafraid to approach complicated, bald emotion and anger." The Brooklyn Rail"A very cunning variation on the revenge fable." The New York Times Book Review"The lusty, livid Joanna is the hottest middle aged dead woman in fiction." The Minneapolis Star Tribune Joanna DeAngelis may be gone from this life, but she

and even visit Santa's Workshop

Fernando Caruncho

One Runaway will die

our consciousness

Her readers will be rapt--and a lot smarter by the end

the transformative power of the company's "AND" philosophy has resulted in an astonishing record of achievement

lost hope in the future

Matthew is consumed with repeated thoughts

Marked by the same bravura storytelling and precise language that made "The Crimson Petal and the White" such an international success

Bruce Brute

And though the people who fill the island in 1940 may be less divine than their Olympian forebears

Martha may think her cat