Coffee House Press

  • Fish in Exile

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    The loss of a child takes mythological, magical casts–distortions that allow us to see the contours of grief more clearly.

    • Author: Nao, VI Khi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: November 01 2016
    • ISBN10: 1566894492
    • Language: English
  • After the Winter

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    Praise for Guadalupe Nettel:
    “Nettel offers her keen attention and sympathy to any living thing struggling to get by.”The New York Times
    “Nettel has brilliantly found a form to contain the multitude

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    • Author: Nettel, Guadalupe
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 264
    • Publish Date: September 04 2018
    • ISBN10: 1566895251
    • Language: English
  • The Open Curtain

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    A taut literary thriller investigating the contemporary aftermath of Mormonism’s shrouded and violent past.

    • Author: Evenson, Brian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 264
    • Publish Date: February 09 2016
    • ISBN10: 1566894174
    • Language: English
  • With Bloom Upon Them and Also with Blood: A Horror Miscellany

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    The “f**k” count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots. The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money’s gone. From the author of The Malevolent Volume and National Book Award-winning Indecency

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    • Author: Reed, Justin Phillip
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: October 31 2023
    • ISBN10: 1566896916
    • Language: English
  • Unbearable Splendor

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    Finalist for the Believer Poetry Award

    “[her] work reads like redactions, offering fragments to be explored, investigated and interrogated, making her reader equal partner in the creation of meaning.”-

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    • Author: Shin, Sun Yung
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: October 11 2016
    • ISBN10: 1566894514
    • Language: English
  • Socialist Realism

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    Moving west-from Singapore to America, from New York to California-a woman examines the myth of “finding home” even as she comes to terms with its impossibilities.

    • Series: Emily Books
    • Author: Low, Trisha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: August 13 2019
    • ISBN10: 1566895510
    • Language: English
  • My Love, My Love: Or the Peasant Girl

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    Rosa Guy is a fine writer and she continually gives us new issues to contemplate.–Maya Angelou

    • Author: Guy, Rosa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: September 01 2002
    • ISBN10: 1566891310
    • Language: English
  • Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas

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    African futurism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction–Dumas’s stories form a vivid, expansive portrait of Black life in America.

    Henry Dumas’s fabulist

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    • Author: Dumas, Henry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: May 04 2021
    • ISBN10: 156689607X
    • Language: English
  • Bilbao-New York-Bilbao

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    On a transatlantic flight between Bilbao and New York City, a fictional version of Kirmen Uribe recalls three generations of family history–the inspiration for the novel he wants to write–and ponder

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    • Series: Spatial Species
    • Author: Uribe, Kirmen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: October 04 2022
    • ISBN10: 1566896495
    • Language: English
  • I’ll Tell You in Person

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    Praise for Chloe Caldwell:

    “I read it a couple of months ago in one can’t-put-it-down-even-though-it’s-the-middle-of-the-night sitting. It’s as intense and interesting and clear-hearted as they come.”

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    • Series: Emily Books
    • Author: Caldwell, Chloe
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: October 04 2016
    • ISBN10: 1566894530
    • Language: English
  • Comemadre

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    Literary Latin American FLATLINERS: a smart, engrossing, and darkly funny novel experimenting with where life and love begin and end.

    • Author: Larraquy, Roque
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: July 10 2018
    • ISBN10: 1566895154
    • Language: English
  • I Hotel

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    Dazzling and ambitious, this multivoiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco near the

    • Author: Yamashita, Karen Tei
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 648
    • Publish Date: October 08, 2019
    • ISBN10: 1566895456
    • Language: English
  • Saint Sebastian’s Abyss

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    “What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at the foot of Saint Sebastian’s Abyss along with Schmidt, hands cupped to the sides of our faces, debatin

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    • Author: Haber, Mark
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: May 10 2022
    • ISBN10: 1566896363
    • Language: English
  • Borealis

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    Art about glaciers, queer relationships, political anxiety, and the meaning of Blackness in open space–Borealis is a shapeshifting logbook of Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s experiences moving through the Ala

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    • Series: Spatial Species
    • Author: Sabatini Sloan, Aisha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: November 02 2021
    • ISBN10: 1566896193
    • Language: English
  • Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

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    W. G. Sebald meets Maggie Nelson in an autobiographical narrative of embodiment, visual art, history, and loss.

    • Author: Fleischmann, T.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: June 04 2019
    • ISBN10: 1566895472
    • Language: English
  • Village

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    Part poetry collection, part soundscape, Village uses dark humor and keen observation to explore the roots of memory, grief, and estrangement.

    In propulsive and formally inventive verse, LaTasha N. Ne

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    • Author: Diggs, Latasha N. Nevada
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: February 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1566896614
    • Language: English
  • Faces in the Crowd

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    Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014
    Largehearted Boy Favorite Novels of 2014

    “An extraordinary new literary talent.”–The Daily Telegraph

    “In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this

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    • Author: Luiselli, Valeria
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 154
    • Publish Date: May 13 2014
    • ISBN10: 1566893542
    • Language: English
  • One Night Two Souls Went Walking

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    “I believe in expecting light. That’s my job.” A hospital chaplain offers compassion to her patients over the course of one eventful night shift, and finds some for herself, too.

    • Author: Cooney, Ellen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 216
    • Publish Date: November 10 2020
    • ISBN10: 1566895979
    • Language: English
  • In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation

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    A meditation on in vitro fertilization that expands and complicates the stories we tell about pregnancy.

    Medical interventions become an exercise in patience, desire, and delirium in this intimate ac

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    • Author: Zapata, Isabel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: May 09 2023
    • ISBN10: 1566896754
    • Language: English
  • A Collapse of Horses

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    With minimalist literary horror, Brian Evenson’s stories work a nightmare axis of doubt, paranoia, and every day life.

    • Author: Evenson, Brian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: February 09 2016
    • ISBN10: 1566894131
    • Language: English
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