A harrowing story of how one man’s act of mercy during WW2 changes the lives of a group of strangers, and how they each eventually discover the astonishing truth of their connectionIn The Illusion of...

Simon Van Booy, winner of the prestigious Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, brings his gift for poetic dialogue and sumptuous imagery to thisdebut novel of longing and discovery amidst the...

When devastating news shatters the life of six-year-old Harvey, she finds herself in the care of a veteran social worker and alone in the world save for one relative she has never met – a disabled ex-con,...

A master storyteller’s vision reawakens us to the human experience in this diverse, haunting, and unexpectedly humorous new collection of short fiction from Simon Van Booy - his first since Love Begins...

Since the publication of his critically acclaimed debut collection The Secret Lives of People in Love, Simon Van Booy has been hailed as one of the most exciting and talented short-story writers in Anglo-American...

« Ce jour-là, George Frack reçut une lettre. Elle venait de très loin. Sur le timbre : un oiseau. Il commença par penser qu’elle lui avait été délivrée par erreur. » Il ne pouvait détacher son regard...

« John avait trois ans de moins et il était fou d’elle. Mais après l’attaque de Pearl Harbor, elle s’était demandé ce qu’il adviendrait d’elle s’il était envoyé au combat. De l’autre côté de l’océan,...

« Je voulais seulement me plonger dans son regard vert, écouter le son cadencé de sa voix, comme si ses mots étaient les notes que j’avais toujours cherché à entendre, celles que je n’avais jamais jouées,...

Provocative and eye-opening, Why We Need Love is one of three slim selections of philosophical texts and excerpts—along with Why We Fight and Why Our Decisions Don’t Matter—introduced and contextualized...

“Van Booy’s great triumph comes in using a family secret to underscore the message that family is as much a choice as a blood tie. Although any reader will find something to love here, someone who has...

“The uncanny beauty of Van Booy’s prose, and his ability to knife straight to the depths of a character’s heart, fill a reader with wonder.” — San Francisco ChronicleAward-winning author Simon Van Booy...

“She believed it was a gift to never truly know the self. We are not who we think we are, nor how others see us. Long before death, we die a thousand times at the hands of a definition.”A master storyteller’s...

'Loaded with charm, resilience, and the deep desire for connection that all mammals share. I loved it' Ann Patchett'Utterly charming and beautifully written, Sipsworth is a tender tale about loss, loneliness...