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UPCOMING EVENTS
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June 10
SPOKANE -- BOOK LAUNCH PARTY
Northwest Passages/Aunties
Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center
Gonzaga University 7 p.m.
JUNE 11
SEATTLE, WA
Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park)
Time: 7:00pm
JUNE 12
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WA
Eagle Harbor Books
Time: 6:30pm
JUNE 13
SEATTLE, WA
Elliott Bay Books
Time: 7:00pm
Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid.
But when his grandchildren show up on his remote doorstep, Rhys must reemerge into a world he once rejected, setting course on a comic journey that leads from a dangerous militia compound to a wild electronica festival to the rubble of the life he left behind. Recommended 2025 Summer Reads: New York Times, Washington Post, CBS Sunday Morning, Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Indie Next -- ON SALE JUNE 10, AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW!
"The characters are created with loving care, the plot with reckless glee . . . Walter is a beacon of wit, decency and style." Kirkus Reviews (Starred review)
"A rollicking and heartending adventure ... This captivates." Publishers Weekly (Starred review)
"A tremendous achievement ... one of the strongest realist but dystopian novels of the present era." Library Journal (Starred Review)
"A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It's an American original." Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake
"So Far Gone is a marvel." Tom Perrotta, author of Tracy Flick Can't Win
"What a rolicking good time." Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds
"So Far Gone feels like a twenty-first century variation on classic detective fiction and entirely original at the same time." Vogue (Best Books of 2025 So Far)
"A gleeful, kooky and tender homage to Charles Portis's True Grit with echoes of Tom Robbins and yes, Elinor Lipman too." Los Angeles Times (30 Must-Read Books for Summer)
"Walter delves into our era's most pressing issues with grace, humor, and humanity." Yvette Olson, Magnolia's Bookstore (Indie Next Pick for June)
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"Intensely affecting fiction ... The stories in 'The Angel of Rome' are largehearted and wonderfully inventive."--Hilma Wolitzer, The New York Times Book Review
An Indie Next pick for July * A Daily Beast "Best Summer Reads of 2022" * An Elle "21 Must Read Summer Books" * An Esquire "20 Best Books of Summer" * A Kirkus "Six Books to Read This Summer" * A Globe and Mail "38 Reads to Escape with this Season" * A Boston.com "24 Books That You Should Read This Summer, According to Local Experts" *
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Best Book of the Year: Bloomberg | Boston Globe | Chicago Public Library | Chicago Tribune | Esquire | Kirkus | New York Public Library | New York Times Book Review (Historical Fiction) | NPR's Fresh Air | O Magazine | Washington Post | Publishers Weekly | Seattle Times | USA Today
A Library Reads Pick | An Indie Next Pick
Winner of the Washington State Book Award and the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction
"A work of irresistible characters, harrowing advenures and rip-roaring fun ... one of the most captivating novels of the year." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"Masterly ... Shifting perspectives and sharp plot twists contribute to the richness of the story, bringing a tumultuous time in American history to life." - The New Yorker
"Swelling with empathy … perfectly timed ... I haven't encountered a more satisfying and moving novel about the struggle for workers' rights in America." - Anita Felicelli, San Francisco Chronicle
"Like all Jess Walter novels, "The Cold Millions" will break your heart and make you hopeful at the same time." - Mary Ann Gwinn, Seattle Times
"A tremendous work, a vivid, propulsive historical novel with a politcially explosive backdrop that reverberates through our own ..." - Steph Cha, USA Today
"WHY MINCE WORDS? BEAUTIFUL RUINS IS AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE"- Richard Russo
"A Literary Miracle" - NPR's Fresh Air Novel of 2012 (Maureen Corrigan, NPR)
- New York Times Best Seller: 69 weeks, five at #1
- Esquire's 2012 Book of the Year
- Audible and Salon's Audio Book of 2012
New York Times Book Review: "A high-wire feat of bravura storytelling."
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019
"Captivating ... devastating ... funny because it's true, and horrible because it's true, and funny because it's horrible, and so on, forever. Fortunately, Walter is a bighearted man who excels at writing about other bighearted, if broken, men. That generosity of spirit, coupled with Walter's seeming inability to look away from the messy bits, elevates these stories from dirges to symphonies." - Allison Glock, New York Times Book Review
WATCH Jess read "Statistical Abstract of my Hometown"