{"title":"Riverhead Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eRiverhead Books is an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) founded in 1994 by Susan Petersen Kennedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriters published by Riverhead include Ali Sethi, Marlon James, Junot Díaz, George Saunders, Khaled Hosseini, Nick Hornby, Anne Lamott, Carlo Rovelli, Randall Munroe, Patricia Lockwood, Sarah Vowell, the Dalai Lama, Chang-rae Lee, Meg Wolitzer, Dinaw Mengestu, Daniel Alarcón, Daniel H. Pink, Steven Johnson, Jon Ronson, Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Gilbert, James McBride, Jing Tsu, C Pam Zhang, Garrard Conley and Nicholas Binge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthors published by Riverhead won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for four out of its first six years. Four authors have won MacArthur Genius Grants and many writers Riverhead has published have given TED Talks. Riverhead authors have won PEN and other literary awards, including the Booker Prize, the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award for writers of African descent, the Stonewall Award for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender fiction, and the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 for the best young emerging voices. Four authors were included in The New Yorker's \"20 under 40\" list of young fiction writers. In 2019, Riverhead author Olga Tokarczuk won the Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publisher of Riverhead is Geoffrey Kloske. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"matrix","title":"Matrix","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of our best American writers, and a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003euthor of the highly anticipated THE VASTER WILDS, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLauren Groff returns with this exhilarating and groundbreaking novel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie’s vision be bulwark enough?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEqually alive to the sacred and the profane, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMatrix\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff’s new novel, her first since \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFates and Furies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Fern","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":58440630239313,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/1401\/6081\/files\/matrix-paperback.jpg?v=1764895832"},{"product_id":"florida","title":"Florida","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe universally-acclaimed return of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFates and Furies, Matrix, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Vaster Wilds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIn Lauren Groff’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFlorida\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ethe hot sun shines, but a wild darkness lurks. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFlorida\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is a \"superlative\" book (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), \"gorgeously weird and limber\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), \"frequently funny\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), \"brooding, inventive and often moving\" (NPR Fresh Air) -- as Groff is recognized as \"Florida's unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California.\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"Groff's gifts as a writer just keep soaring higher and higher.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e– NPR’s Fresh Air\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild—a place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to pounce, yet the greatest threats and mysteries are still of an emotional, psychological nature. A family retreat can be derailed by a prowling panther, or by a sexual secret. Among those navigating this place are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple, a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable, recurring character—a steely and conflicted wife and mother. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida—its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind—becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury—the moments that make us alive. Startling, precise, and affecting, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFlorida\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a magnificent achievement.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Fern","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":58440630009937,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/1401\/6081\/files\/florida-paperback.jpg?v=1764895833"},{"product_id":"the-vaster-wilds","title":"The Vaster Wilds","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAN INSTANT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTIME, ESQUIRE, VOGUE, LA TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, SLATE, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHARPER'S BAZAAR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and others\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e “Part historical, part horror, part breathless thriller, part wilderness survival tale, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Vaster Wilds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is a story about the lengths to which we will go to stay alive.\"—NPR staff pick \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Lauren Groff just reinvented the adventure novel.\"—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGlorious…surroundings come alive in prose that lives and breathes upon the page.\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLauren Groff’s new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world succumbing to the churn of colonialism. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Vaster Wilds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how—and if—we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Fern","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":58440630796369,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":58440630829137,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/1401\/6081\/files\/the-vaster-wilds-paperback.jpg?v=1764895833"},{"product_id":"fates-and-furies","title":"Fates and Furies","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONE OF \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE ATLANTIC\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE WASHINGTON POST, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNPR,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSLATE,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e AND MANY MORE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFates and Furies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers – with comedy, tragedy, well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmers of brilliance throughout.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e (cover review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the award-winning, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFlorida, Matrix, a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003end the highly-anticipated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Vaster Wilds:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFates and Furies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. 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With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. 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But it is by no means this book's only kind of splendor.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e---Janet Maslin, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Even the most incidental details vibrate with life \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eArcadia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e wends a harrowing path back to a fragile, lovely place you can believe in.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e---Ron Charles, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eArcadia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e follows this romantic utopian dream from its hopeful start through its heyday. 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