J. Robert Lennon

• Aug-1997
• / General Fiction
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Extravagantly praised by reviewers, a moving and graceful debut novel about the nature of grief and love explores the taut connections that join the survivors of an airplane crash, a group of vulnerable people from around the globe. Reprint....

• Feb-1999
• / General Fiction
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The Mix family, a motley crew of troubled souls who have been forever immortalized in their father's popular comic strip, must learn to inhabit the real world when their father dies and the division of his estate becomes an issue. Reprint....

• Aug-2001
• / General Fiction
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At the end of World War II, Grant Person abandons his family’s ranch on the Great Plains for a fishing boat on the Atlantic, only to be drawn back by his mother’s death. His father has mysteriously disappeared, and Grant’s brother, Max, a l...

• Sep-2003
• / General Fiction
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"'Masterpiece' would be an exaggeration, but only a small one."―Andrew Ervin, Washington Post Book World

• Apr-2009
• / General Fiction
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Castle by J. Robert Lennon"Castle tells a terrific story, dire and confusing and convincing." -- Scott Bradfield, The New York Times Book ReviewEric Loesch, a private man with a shadowy past, returns to his hometown in rural New York, where he purch...

• Apr-2009
• / General Fiction
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Finally available in the United States, a singular story collection that Time Out declared "unsettlingly brilliant"Astudent's suicide note is not what it seems. A high school football rivalry turns absurd -- and deadly. A much-loved cat seems to have...

• Oct-2012
• / Literary
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A haunting, enigmatic novel about a woman who is given a second chance -- and isn't sure whether she really wants it * A Publishers Weekly "Indie Sleeper" * A Powell's Indiespensable Pick * The Nervous Breakdown's October Book Club Pick *Elisa Brown ...

• Oct-2013
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• Nov-2014
• / General Fiction
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Bizarre, darkly funny and disconcerting, this collection of stories explores the surreal that lurks in everyday life. Deftly blending the everyday at its most uncanny with smatterings of sci-fi, these fourteen stories probe moments when family memb...

• Nov-2014
• / Literary
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“I guess the things that scare you are the things that are almost normal,” observes one narrator in this collection of effervescent and often uncanny stories. Drawing on fifteen years of work, See You in Paradise is the fullest expression yet of ...

• May-2017
• / Thriller
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A modest house in upstate New York. One in the morning. Three people -- a couple and their child -- hurry out the door, but it's too late for them. As the virtuosic and terrifying opening scene of BROKEN RIVER unfolds, a spectral presence seems to be...

• Jul-2019
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• Apr-2021
• / Literary
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A new collection of short fiction by the author of the cult classic Pieces for the Left HandLet Me Think is a meticulous selection of short stories by one of the preeminent chroniclers of the American absurd. Through J. Robert Lennon’s mordant yet ...

• Apr-2021
• / Psychological Suspense
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A heady, inventive, fantastical novel about the nature of memory and the difficulty of confronting traumaAn unnamed woman checks into a guesthouse in a mysterious district known only as the Subdivision. The guesthouse’s owners, Clara and the Judge,...

• Feb-2024
• / Thriller
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In this "racing, twisty crime novel," two estranged twin sisters hunt down their elusive mother -- and face down the darkness they tried to escape. (Chelsea Bieker) Jane Pool likes her safe, suburban existence just fine. She has a house, a ...