CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Meg Rosoff
whAt i wAS
In this piercing and magical story, an old man looks back on an
unlikely boyhood friendship torn asunder by a heart-breaking
scandal. “A beautifully crafted tale that seems, like its protagonist,
both enduringly old and fluently new.”—Los Angeles Times.
Plume • 224 pp. • 978-0-452-29023-5 • $15.00
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Also available: Just in Case 978-0-452-28937-6,
The Bride’s Farewell 978-0-670-02099-7
Danzy Senna
cAucASiA
A mixed-race daughter of 1970’s activists must start a new life on
the run with her mother. “[An] absorbing debut novel....Senna superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race take on one
especially gutsy young girl’s development as she makes her way
through the parallel limbos between black and white and between
girl and young woman.”—New York Times.
Riverhead • 432 pp. • 978-1-57322-716-2 • $15.00
Winner of the Stephen Crane Award for Best New Fiction and
the American Library Association’s Alex Award, a Los Angeles Times
Book of the Year
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Ruta Sepetys
Between ShAdeS of grAy
One night in 1941, Soviet officers barge into fifteen-year-old lina’s
lithuanian home, tearing her family from the comfortable life
they’ve known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded
and dirty train car, lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly
make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in
the coldest reaches of Siberia. “In terrifying detail, Ruta Sepetys re-creates a World War II coming of age all too timely today....A document long overdue.”—Richard Peck, author of A Year Down Yonder.
Philomel • 352 pp. • 978-0-399-25412-3 • $17.99
Available March 2011
CoNTEMPoRaRY FICTIoN
Mahbod Seraji
rooftoPS of tehrAn
A novel of young love and coming of age in an Iran headed toward revolution. “In clear, vivid detail, Seraji opens the door to
the fascinating world of Iran and provides a revealing glimpse
into the life and customs of a country on the verge of a revolution.”—Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Street of a Thousand Blossoms.
“A stirring story about the loss of innocence, Rooftops of Tehran
reveals a side of Iran understood by few Westerners.”—John Shors,
author of Beneath a Marble Sky.
NaL • 368 pp. • 978-0-451-22681-5 • $15.00
Author video available at us.penguingroup.com/seraji
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