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PICADOR INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS GUIDE LONDON BOOK FAIR 2015 Devon Mazzone Director, Subsidiary Rights [email protected] 18 West 18 th Street, New York, NY 10011 (212) 206-5301

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PICADOR

INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS GUIDE

LONDON BOOK FAIR 2015

Devon MazzoneDirector, Subsidiary Rights

[email protected] West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011

(212) 206-5301

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Amber HooverForeign Rights Manager

[email protected] West 18th Street, New York, NY,

10011(212) 206-5304

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Donohue, KeithTHE BOY WHO DREW MONSTERSOctober 2014 (finished copies available)

Ever since he almost drowned in the ocean four years earlier, eleven-year-old Jip has become an “inside boy,” confined to his home in a small coastal town in Maine, deathly afraid to venture

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outdoors. Jip is quiet and introverted, content to spend most of his day drawing pictures of monsters. His only visitor is his friend Nick, who finds Jip's monsters just a little too creepy. When Jip’s drawings start to mimic strange sightings in the outside world, no one is safe. His mother Holly finds herself driven slowly mad with anxiety and terror as his father wanders the beach, searching for the strange man he saw lurking nearby. Because someone or something is trying to get inside the house as the line between fantasy and reality becomes increasingly blurred. A deliciously creepy, hypnotic tale of imagination run wild, THE BOY WHO DREW MONSTERS is the perfect read for a dark winter’s night.

Keith Donohue is currently at work on his next novel, tentatively titled THE MOTION OF PUPPETS.

Keith Donohue is the national bestselling author of the novels The Stolen Child, The Angels of Destruction, and Centuries of June. His work has been translated into two dozen languages, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, among other publications. A graduate of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Donohue also holds a Ph.D. in

English from The Catholic University of America. He lives in Maryland.

Praise for THE BOY WHO DREW MONSTERS:

“Keith Donohue evokes the otherworldly with humor and the

ordinary with wonder.”—Audrey Niffenegger, author of

The Time Traveler’s Wife

“A sterling example of the new breed of horror: unnerving and

internal with just the right number of bumps in the night.”

—Kirkus Reviews

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THE STOLEN CHILD:

Chinese / Shanghai 99 Czech / Alman Danish / Husets; Audioteket Dutch / Arena German / Bertelsmann Greek / Livanis Italian / Rizzoli Indonesian/Pustaka Japanese / Futami Shobo Korean / Jakkajungshin Norwegian / Gyldendal Polish / Otwarte Portuguese / Saida da Emergencia) Portuguese (Br.)/Objetiva Zahra Romanian / Curtea Veche Slovakian / Ikar Spanish / RH Mondadori Swedish / Bonniers Taiwanese / Yuan-Liou Thai / Matichon Turkish / Merkez UK / Jonathan Cape

Goldberg, PaulTHE YIDA NovelOctober 2015 (manuscript available)

Josef Stalin died on March 5, 1953. THE YID takes place over 6 days, from February 24 to March 1, and suggests one scenario for the tyrant’s death. It opens in Moscow during the days of Stalin’s pogroms, as three government goons arrive in the middle of the night in a

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Black Maria to arrest Solomon Shimonovich Levinson, an actor from the defunct State Yiddish Theater. Though wooden on stage, Levinson is accomplished in the art of combat, and his unexpected (and violent) response to the attempted arrest sets in motion a road trip that is as zany as it is violent.

Solomon’s actions that night set him on an irreversible path, his only recourse being to assemble a ragtag group of actors and revolutionaries to help him see his plan through to its logical conclusion: the assassination of a tyrant. While the setting is Soviet Russia, the backdrop is Shakespeare’s King Lear: A mad king—Stalin—has a diabolical plan to exterminate and deport his country’s remaining Jews. The old mythology of ritual murder returns to life as newspapers trumpet the story of Jewish doctors’ plots to kill Soviet leaders and ordinary Russians by poisoning them. Lists of Jews are being compiled. Freight trains are being dispatched to deport the survivors to Siberia. Will the world stand idly by as these bloody events unfold? Will this touch off another war, which will be fought with atom and hydrogen bombs? Can this holocaust be stopped? Who can stop it? An old actor? A doctor? A girl? An American? Quite an unlikely troupe, to be sure. An immigrant from the Soviet Union at 11 in 1974, Paul Goldberg has been profiled in major stories in the New York Times and Washington Post, and his work is regularly cited in the national press. He has appeared all over television and NPR, and has reviewed books in national newspapers for years. In 2011, he co-wrote, with American Cancer Society Chief Medical Officer Otis Brawley, the scathing polemic How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America.

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Loyd, Amy GraceTHE AFFAIRS OF OTHERSSeptember 2013 (finished copies available)

A 2013 BEA Editors Buzz Book

Celia Cassill prefers that her tenants pay their rent on time, but, more important, she asks that they keep to themselves. Five years ago, in the wake of her young husband’s death, she purchased and renovated a four-unit brownstone in a tidy corner of downtown Brooklyn. With the arrival of a subletor, a beautiful and soon to be divorced woman named Hope, Celia’s attempt to keep vigil, to fend off the chaos of modern life, fails. Her privacy is fractured; it happens incrementally and then dramatically—with sex, in turns dark and tender, and violence. As Celia’s life becomes more intertwined with that of her tenants, she finds her own grief slowly thawing.

Like Paula Fox, Loyd investigates interior spaces—of the body and the “New York warrens” in which her characters live. Like Kathryn Harrison and Siri Hustvedt, she offers a startling emotional honesty about the traffic between men and women, about sensuality’s gifts, whether light or dark. And throughout it all, THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS moves toward a genuine and earned joy. Ultimately, this is a story about the irrepressibility of life and desire, no matter its sorrows or obstacles.

Amy Grace Loyd is an executive editor at Byliner, Inc. The former fiction and literary editor at Playboy magazine, Loyd has also worked in the fiction department at The New Yorker. A recipient of MacDowell and Yaddo fellowships, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Praise for THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS:

“Hypnotic, beautiful, and melancholy, this book trembles with feeling, every sentence a breath, every sentence a seismographic wonder of observation. Scuba-diving once, I watched minute sea-grass oscillate with the motion of

the sea, and this is how I think of the narrator of this magnificent novel -- she sways with every movement of the world, both interior and exterior,

registering it all, and always you wonder, with an aching heart, what will become of her?”

—Jonathan Ames, author of Wake Up, Sir!

“From start to finish, Loyd’s prose flows exquisitely through the story, as she limns the depths of the protagonist’s mind, the complexity of human intimacy, and the idiosyncrasies of each new character with

the grace of a seasoned novelist.” —Vanity Fair

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MacDonnell, JuliaMIMI MALLOY AT LASTApril 2014 (finished copies available)

Forced into retirement at the age of sixty-seven, Mimi Malloy enjoys the simple things in life: her apartment in the heart of Quincy, Massachusetts, her True Blue cigarettes, and a quiet evening with Frank Sinatra and a Manhattan in her hand. A child of the Great Depression, Mimi was born into an Irish Catholic brood of seven—the eldest among the surviving once-Glorious Sheehan Girls, with six daughters of her own—and peace has always been hard to come by. Her sisters, charter members of the Yik Yak Club, think a moment’s silence is a moment wasted, and her first-born keeps calling to discuss the merits of assisted living. Okay, so Mimi might have the occasional senior moment, but she already lost thirty years of her life to her ex-husband, and she intends to keep her independence come hell or high water. But when an MRI reveals that there her brain is filled with black spots—areas of atrophy, her doctor says—the prospect of spending her remaining days in an “Old Timer’s facility” becomes a frightening possibility.

Yet as Mimi prepares to take a stand against her daughters, she stumbles upon an old heirloom, and her memory starts to return—specifically, memories of a shockingly painful childhood, her long lost sister Fagan, and the wicked stepmother she swore to forget. As much as Mimi hates to admit it, her mother’s pendant reminds her that her closet might contain an actual skeleton or two—and that she also has courage to confront them.

By turns wise and funny, dark and whimsical, sardonic and deeply moving, MIMI MALLOY AT LAST is an unforgettable story of motherhood, second chances, and the family bonds that break us and remake us. Above all, it’s a poignant reminder that it’s never too late for love—and that one can always come of age a second time.

Julia MacDonnell’s fiction has appeared in many literary magazines, including the American Literary Review, Briar Cliff Review, and Many Mountains Moving, and her journalism has been featured in The Boston Globe, The New York Daily News, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among other publications. Her story “Soy Paco” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and over the years she has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. A tenured professor at Rowan University, she is the nonfiction editor of Philadelphia Stories. This is her first novel in twenty years.

“The end of life becomes an unexpected beginning in Julia MacDonnell’s moving, funny masterpiece about love, memory, and the family ties we

sometimes need to untangle. Absolutely captivating.”—Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You

and Is This Tomorrow

“A love letter to sisterhood, Frank Sinatra, late-in-life romance, and the enduring ties of family. The book's will make you laugh, cry and relive your own past.”

—Sally Koslow, author of The Widow Waltz and The Late, Lamented Molly Marx

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Womack, GwendolynTHE MEMORY PAINTERA NovelApril 2015 (finished copies available)An Indiebound Indie Next Pick

Reclusive artist Brian Pierce has been tortured with visions all his life. Or, more precisely, memories from other people’s lives who have lived before him. These are more than simple dreams. He returns from them with new languages, new skills, and a head full of all the joys and pains of being human. Unable to confide in anyone, he creates paintings of his past lives.

Linz Jacobs is a brilliant young geneticist and the heiress to a pharmaceutical fortune. But her world is turned upside down while attending an art opening when she encounters a painting identical to a recurring dream that has plagued her since childhood. When she seeks the artist out, their encounter turns into something unexpected, a meeting that triggers the most important recall of Brian’s life: a neuroscientist on the precipice of obtaining a cure for Alzheimer’s, who died in a tragic accident with his wife in 1983.

As Brian struggles to solve the mystery of their death, he slips through lives—from imperial Russia, to feudal Japan, to the court of Versailles, to aboriginal Australia—all with curious links to ancient Egypt. Through this kaleidoscope of recalls, a pattern emerges to reveal a great love, a great enemy, and an even greater truth buried deep in their soul’s past—a truth that leads Brian and Linz on an all-consuming mission to bring a powerful gift to mankind. this is a love story that transcends time. A cross between Inception and The Time Traveler’s Wife, THE MEMORY PAINTER strives to ask: does humanity have a forgotten past? And is there a legacy waiting for mankind to remember?

GWENDOLYN WOMACK grew up in Houston, Texas, studied theatre at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks then moved to California to pursue an MFA in Directing Theatre, Video, and Cinema. The Memory Painter is her first novel.

“Layers of past and present form a rich pastry of a narrative—poignant and thoughtful, rich and suspenseful, filled with intrigue and dripping with meaning. Womack’s meditation on the beautiful mystery of memory is a riveting read from cover to cover, leaving us with the breathless realization that while grief may be eternal, so is love.” —Charlie Lovett, New York Times bestselling author of The Bookman’s Tale

"A sweeping, mesmerizing feat of absolute magic. Ten thousand love stories, tales of revenge, inventions, histories, mysteries, and memories combine to serve up a complex and utterly riveting novel that leaves you with feelings of awe and wonder. A star is born!"—M.J. Rose, New York Times bestselling author of The Witch of Painted Sorrows

“An absolute masterpiece. Spellbinding from beginning to end, this brilliantly woven tale of time-crossed lovers will keep you hooked well into the wee hours. Womack is a storytelling virtuosa whose sexy, action-packed mind-boggler of a book is destined to become a classic.” —Anne Fortier, New York Times bestselling author of Juliet

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Yun, JungSHELTERA NovelOctober 2015 (manuscript available)

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SHELTER tells the story of Kyung Cho, a thirty-six-year-old university biology professor living with his Irish-American wife, Gillian and their four-year-old son, Ethan, in a picturesque suburban town outside of Boston. The young couple are living beyond their means, playing a “shell game” with credit cards that has finally caught up with them. Kyung’s wealthy first generation Korean-American parents live in a large, exquisitely appointed home, decorated with precision by Kyung’s fifty-six year-old mother, Mae, in the region’s most exclusive neighborhood nearby. Jin, Kyung’s father, an engineering professor, made his fortune on a number of patents and is now, highly respected, if not loved, for the attendant revenue generated at the university where Kyung is also employed.

As they are speaking with a realtor about the likelihood their home will sell (it won’t), they see a woman, naked, disoriented, wandering through their yard. Kyung soon recognizes the woman as his mother, brutally beaten. He immediately thinks it is his father. Kyung has long held secret Jin’s dark, past history of domestic violence toward Mae, a submissive wife who, in turn, had displaced her anger on a young Kyung, the couple’s only son. Aided by a preacher, the beatings have stopped. Or so Kyung thought.

Masterfully crafted and written in spare, unerring prose, SHELTER provides an unforgettable, page-turning read as it veers unpredictably toward its profound and startling conclusion. There’s a bit of THE ICE STORM about it, but maybe more apt is THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG. SHELTER offers a penetrating and psychologically astute look at human nature in all its complexity and in so doing, sheds light on the legacy of violence, its reverberation across generations and what possibilities may endure for hope, redemption and healing. It also serves as a meditation on the eternal challenge of basic human connection—across cultures, socioeconomic groups, gender and age—as well as the price of family duty and the pressure to succeed felt by the offspring of first generation immigrants.

Jung Yun is a graduate of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she studied with Valerie Martin, Sabina Murray, and Noy Holland. Her work has appeared in Tin House (the “Emerging Voices” issue); The Best of Tin House: Stories, edited by Dorothy Allison; and The Massachusetts Review. In 2011, her short story, The Strange Genius of American Men, received an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize. In 2010, she was awarded an Artist’s Fellowship in fiction from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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Daum, Meghan and Yanagihara, Hanya (editors)SELFISH, SHALLOW, AND SELF-ABSORBEDEssaysApril 2015 (finished copies available)

If last decade's great fallen taboo and attendant cultural obsession was the “fertility crisis”—namely, discussions among women about how hard it can be to get pregnant—this decade's is shaping up to be something very different: Women admitting they don't want to get pregnant—ever.

Though there are as many ways of looking at the choice not to have children as there are women who've made that choice, emotions around the issue seem uniformly passionate. While some remain invested in notions of childbearing as life's greatest purpose and see parenthood as the chief hallmark of adulthood, others are calling for an end to the assumption that everyone wants to (or should) have kids. And while it's a sign of progress that parenthood has become a more equal opportunity gambit thanks to medical technology, the flipside is that those who remain childless despite these opportunities are often marginalized, considered incomplete, or simply left out of national conversations of the Lean In variety.

The fifteen essayists of SELFISH, SHALLOW, AND SELF-ABSORBED are lauded writers who do not have children (sometimes by chance, but often by choice). Some have spoken publicly,

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though not necessarily at great length, about knowing since girlhood that they did not want to have children. Others perhaps have been ambivalent or coped with disappointment when closing the door on the possibility once and for all. But though no two contributors' paths will be alike, the editors hope that essays in SELFISH, SHALLOW, AND SELF-ABSORBED will ultimately be united by a sense of peace, even joy, in carving out a life that does not involve parenthood. Contributors include Pam Houston, Kate Christensen, Elliot Holt, Sigrid Nunez, Jeanne Safer, Michele Huneven, Danielle Henderson, Rosemary Mahoney, MG Lord, Anna Holmes, Tim Kreider, Geoff Dyer, Lionel Shriver, Brian Frazer, and Courtney Hodell.

Meghan Daum is an author, magazine writer and, for the past eight years, an opinion columnist at The Los Angeles Times, where she has a wide and enthusiastic following. Hanya Yanagihara is a longtime editor at Conde Nast Traveler.

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Fedden, VictoriaTHIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL LIFEApril 2016 (partial manuscript and synopsis available)

THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL LIFE is a wise and hilarious real-life “Arrested Development” starring a cast of shady and outrageous characters. At nine months pregnant, Victoria Fedden loses her own parents to prison after she opens the door to their Fort Lauderdale McMansion and finds herself, face-to-face with a squad of federal agents. Their subsequent raid on the property is just the first of many stranger-than-fiction troubles to befall Victoria’s family.

Victoria Fedden was born to a teen mom in rural Delaware and is the granddaughter of a trucker and a General. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Florida Atlantic University, and has taught writing at FAU, Barry University and Palm Beach State College. Victoria’s work has appeared in publications such as Real Simple, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and My Other Ex. She is a regular contributor to Elephant Journal and lives with her family in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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Lynch, EimearBRIDESMAIDSTrue Tales of Love, Envy, Loyalty…and Terrible DressesApril 2014 (finished copies available)

Bridesmaids might be the supporting actors in every wedding, but they're the ones having all the fun...

Making sure the bride doesn't trip over her dress on her walk down the aisle; assuring the bride that she looks gorgeous and perfect; jettisoning drunk exes from the ceremony; quelling potential insurrection; making sure the guests who ordered fish get their fish and the ones who ordered steak get steak;

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weeping and grinning on cue as the vows are finally spoken--all in a day's work for the typical bridesmaid.

But what goes on behind the scenes is a different story entirely, and one often more ludicrous, scandalous and downright strange. In BRIDESMAIDS, learn the real stories behind the veil--the ones that the wedding photographers missed.

Hear outrageous tales from: the Bridezilla Coddler; the Professional Bridesmaid; the Burning Man Bridesmaid; the non-Kardashian in a Kardashian Wedding; the convict who obtained a day pass to be a bridesmaid at her best friend's wedding; the bridesmaid who bid money on eBay for the privilege; and many, many more in this deliriously funny, often tear-jerking trip down the aisle.

Eimear Lynch is the twenty-six-year-old Word of Mouth editor at Conde Nast Traveler, where she writes and edits travel news stories and destination guides for the magazine, as well as interviewing celebrities from Helen Mirren to Will.i.am. She also has worked as an investigative journalist, interviewing death-row inmates, cops and gangsters for the Medill Innocence Project. A three-time bridesmaid, she lives in Brooklyn.

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McCann, Colum (editor)THE BOOK OF MENEighty Writers on How to Be a ManNovember 2013 (finished copies available)

To help launch the literary nonprofit Narrative 4, Esquire asked eighty of the world’s greatest writers to chip in with a story, all with the title, “How to Be a Man.”

The result is THE BOOK OF MEN, an unflinching investigation into the essence of manhood.

With contributions from literary luminaries as diverse as the subjects they capture, and curated by the editors of Esquire, the National Book Award–winning Colum McCann, and Narrative 4, a global non-profit devoted to using storytelling as a means to empathy, THE BOOK OF MEN might not teach you how to negotiate a deal or mix a Manhattan, but it does scratch at that most eternal of questions: What is a Man?

Contributors include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Kurt Andersen, Amy Bloom, James Lee Burke, Sloane Crosley, Michael Cunningham, Geoff Dyer, Ben Fountain, Aleksandar Hemon, Khaled Hosseini, William Kittredge, Ayana Mathis, Ian McEwan, Téa Obreht, Joseph O’Connor, Benjamin Percy, Salman Rushdie, Mona Simpson, Jess Walter, and Terry Tempest Williams, among others.

Colum McCann, a contributing editor at Esquire and cofounder of Narrative 4, is the National Book Award–winning author of Let the Great World Spin. His new novel is Transatlantic. NARRATIVE 4 is an organization dedicated to creating social change through storytelling, helping people, and communities be heard by weaving their stories into a global narrative. Visit narrative4.com.

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Schulman, AndrewWAKING THE SPIRITA Musician’s Journey Healing Body, Mind, and SoulMay 2016 (manuscript available April 2015)

Andrew Schulman, a fifty-seven-year old professional musician living in New York City, died on the night of July 16, 2009 at 8:30 PM following an eight-hour operation for pancreatic cancer. At 8:32 PM, Andrew was brought back to life and immediately put into a medically induced coma. For the next three days no one in the hospital thought that Andrew would survive. "The Miracle" that saved his life happened three days later. "The Miracle" was music.

Despairing of his chances, his wife had put on his favorite Bach concerto. The music sparked something in him, and his vital signs began to improve. Once recovered, Andrew resolved to dedicate his life to bringing music to critically ill patients at Beth Israel's SICU. In this book you'll learn the astonishing story of how he came to be America's first medical musician, and about the inspiring people he's touched along the way—both patients and doctors. With research and testimonials by some of the best neurologists, oncologists, and other medical professionals in the country, this book explores the power of music to heal the body and inspire the spirit.

Andrew Schulman is the Resident Musician in the Surgical ICU at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. He is the founder and artistic director of the Abaca String Band, which performs regularly throughout the United States and Europe. He is also a solo guitarist, and has performed his original music and arrangements at venues as diverse as the Improv and The White House. He lives in New York City with his wife.

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Warner, AndyBRIEF HISTORIES OF EVERYDAY OBJECTSOctober 2016 (manuscript available December 2015)

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BRIEF HISTORIES OF EVERYDAY OBJECTS is a graphic novel chock full of hilarious histories of the mundane things that surround us. The stories of items ranging from the toothbrush to kitty litter are told in a funny and engagingly weird style that connects with readers of almost any age. It’s a both a book of histories, and a book about histories, whimsically exploring how legends form around commonplace things. Its chapters are peppered with changing trade routes, ballpoint pen riots and really bad Victorian-era practical jokes. Above all, BRIEF HISTORIES OF EVERYDAY OBJECTS takes joy in finding the true, hidden stories that underpin the most humdrum things we interact with - and then making fun of them.

Andy Warner’s comics have been published by Slate, American Public Media, Symbolia, The Showtime Network’s Years of Living Dangerously, KQED, popsci.com, Medium, The Center for Constitutional Rights, The United Nations Refugee & Works Agency, Generation Progress, Buzzfeed and Upworthy. He holds a BA from Cornell in Near Eastern Studies and an MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies. He teaches comics at Stanford and California College of the Arts. He lives in San Francisco and he comes from the sea.

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Watts, MerrittFIRST JOBSTrue Tales of Bad Bosses, Quirky Coworkers, Big Breaks, and Small PaychecksMay 2015 (galleys available)

A future mayor shining shoes, an atheist shilling Bibles, a housewife heading to work during World War II, a now-famous designer getting fired—we all got our start somewhere. A first job may not have the romance of the first kiss or the excitement of a first car, but more than anything else, it offers a taste of true independence and a preview of what the world has in store for us.

In THE FIRST JOBS, reporter Merritt Watts collects real stories of these early forays into the workforce from a range of eras and industries, and a diversity of backgrounds. For some, a first job is a warm welcome to the working world. For others, it's a rude awakening, but as these stories show, it's an influential, entertaining experience that should not be underestimated.

This book transforms what we might think of as a single, unassuming line at the bottom of a résumé into a collection of absorbing tales and hard-earned wisdom to which we can all, for better or worse, relate.

Merritt Watts is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Her first job was telemarketing; she is now a writer in San Francisco. Hanya Yanagihara lives in New York City.

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