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A Brief History of Yes

By: Micheline Aharonian Marcom

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Micheline Marcom describes her newest novel, A Brief History of Yes—her first since 2008's scathing and erotic The Mirror in the Well—as a "literary fado," referring to a style of Portuguese music that, akin to the American blues, is often melancholic and soulful, and encapsulates the feeling of what the Portuguese call saudade—meaning, loosely, yearning and nostalgia for something or someone irrepreably lost. A Brief History of Yes tells the story of the break-up between a Portuguese woman named Maria and an unnamed American man: it is a collage-like, fragmentary novel whose form captures the workings of attraction and grief, proving once again that American letters has no better poet of love and loss than Micheline Aharonian Marcom.

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1564789764

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Draining the Sea

By: Micheline Aharonian Marcom

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Draining the Sea

By: Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Tormented by memories of the Guatemalan civil war and the violent killing of a young Mayan woman, a man drives the streets of Los Angeles at night while struggling to reconcile his role in her death and the United States' seeming complicity in the horrors of the conflict. 10,000 first printing.

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Penguin

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1594489734

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9781594489730

Draining the Sea

By: Micheline Aharonian Marcom

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Draining the Sea

By: Micheline Aharonian Marcom

The extraordinary new novel from the winner of the 2004 Lannan Literary Fellowship, 2005 PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction, and the 2006 Whiting Writers Award. "A new work of obsession, tragedy, and the unpredictable trajectories of the heart."(Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban) A powerful testament about the far-reaching effects of political brutality and lost love, Draining the Sea sifts through the incongruities of history and memory, unfurling inside the mind of a man who spends his days driving the streets of Los Angeles, racked by visions of the Guatemalan Civil War and, in particular, of Marta--a beautiful young prostitute who died violently in the midst of it. Unfortunately, her death is a tragedy in which he himself may have played a role.

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1440631247

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The New American

A Novel

By: Micheline Aharonian Marcom

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The New American

A Novel

By: Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Emilio thinks he is living the American Dream: his parents, who emigrated from Guatemala to California, sacrifice daily to make sure of it. And his life seems relatively normal until he turns sixteen. Like most teenagers, Emilio is determined to get his driver's license-however, his mother dissuades him from doing so. When Emilio asks why, his parents reveal a shocking secret: he is undocumented. Emilio adjusts to his new normal. Under the Dreamers' Act, he attends Berkley. He falls in love. Everything seems fine...until Emilio gets into a car accident and-without a driver's license or any documentation-the policeman on the scene reports him to Immigration Services. Emilio is deported to Guatemala. But he is determined to get back to California, the only home he has ever known. It is an epic journey that takes him through the cities, jungles, and deserts of South America, towards thieves and corrupt law enforcement but also kind strangers and new friends. Drawing from interviews with Dreamers, and told in lyrical prose, Micheline Marcom weaves a heart-pounding and heartbreaking tale of adventure. This is a timely novel that asks us what we have in common, across experiences and borders, and what truly makes us American"--

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288

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Simon and Schuster

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1982120738

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9781982120733

small pieces

By: Micheline Marcom

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small pieces

By: Micheline Marcom

Small Pieces is a collaboration between novelist Micheline Aharonian Marcom and writer and visual artist Fowzia Karimi, pairing Marcom’s short stories—miniatures as Marcom calls them—with Karimi's watercolors. The work is a conversation between two artists in text and image, side by side.

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162897477X

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A Brief History of Yes

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A Brief History of Yes

A Brief History of Yes

Draining the Sea

Draining the Sea

Draining the Sea

Draining the Sea

The New American

The New American

small pieces

small pieces

A Brief History of Yes

A Brief History of Yes

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