The Vanishers is the newest novel from The Believer magazine co-founder Heidi Julavits. It's an imaginative meditation on female rivalry filtered through a paranormal lens.
Spiotta's last book, 2006's Eat the Document was described by the New York Times as "a book that possesses the staccato ferocity of a Joan Didion essay". This, her third book, was named a best book of 2011 by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly and Salon.
Trying to describe Gods Without Men, Douglas Coupland -in his NYT review of the book- proposes a new literary genre he calls 'Translit" (Cunningham's The Hours and Mitchell's Cloud Atlas are two examples he selects to illustrate) which, in a nutshell, means that GWN features sub-stories, screws with time and geography and is a wild, post-modern read!And, as always, new hardcover fiction is 20% off!
