A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories Fiction_Gift_Guide January's life is dictated by

January's life is dictated by his status as an Earthstronger-a person whose body is not adjusted to lower gravity and so poses a danger to those born on

and a girl who may be more manipulative than miraculous

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery confronts the sickness at the heart of American society: the cyclical pattern of violence that has marred every moment of racial progress in this country

Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples--and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid

A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories Fiction_Gift_Guide January's life is dictated byWhen the young narrator of Miriam Karpilove's A Provincial Newspaper leaves New York to work for a new Yiddish newspaper in Massachusetts, she expects to be treated with respect as a professional writer. Instead, she finds herself underpaid and overworked. In this slapstick novella, Karpilove's narrator lampoons the gaggle of blundering publishers and editors who put her through the ringer and spit her back out again. Along with A Provincial