I had the pleasure of acquiring and editing the following books for Counterpoint Press:
You Are Here: A Novel by Karin Lin-Greenberg
May 2023 Indie Next Pick
Sarah Selects May 2023 Book Club Pick
People magazine’s Book of the Week for May 8
“Saying You Are Here is about a mall closing in a small town is like saying Moby Dick is about a whale. The commonplace happening is merely a tool to explore both how human beings are intimately connected and how others are fully unknowable. This books reminds me of early Celeste Ng—in the best way.” —Sarah Gelman, A Sarah Selects Pick
When Trying to Return Home: Stories by Jennifer Maritza McCauley
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“McCauley writes with a lovely lyricism and musicality, an adroitness of construction that brings a lightness to her heavier subjects. Within a crowded field of collections that explore family, motherhood and identity, this debut makes the case for one more.” —Amil Niazi, The New York Times
Out of Esau: A Novel by Michelle Webster Hein
“A graceful fiction debut . . . Soulful . . . With characters yearning for intimacy and acceptance, Hein delicately probes the meanings of family, freedom, and desire. A gentle tale of love and loneliness.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Out of Esau is a tremendous achievement. A literary page-turner with prose that dips and soars, and characters that leap off the page. I was deeply moved by this tale of love, faith, and family, and I know you will be, too. This wonderful novel is one of the best books of the year.” —David Heska Wanbli Weiden, author of Winter Counts
Nuclear Family: A Novel by Joseph Han
APALA Adult Literature Honor Book
Shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize
Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, TIME, Debutiful, and them
June 2022 Indie Next Pick
“You’d have to visit Cirque du Soleil to see someone juggle as much as Han with such effortless dexterity and tenderness . . . Rhythmic and hypnotic; it captivates from the very first page and gracefully conveys the loss and the longing the family experiences.” —The New York Times Book Review
None But the Righteous: A Novel by Chantal James
January 2022 Indie Next Pick
A Kirkus Most Anticipated Book of the Year
Goodreads, A Most Anticipated Debut Novel of 2022
“This is a book of faith aching to be claimed, of a land that dares to be redeemed, of souls searching to be free, of all spirits looking for a home. It’s a metaphysical book deeply rooted in ancient legacies of subjugation . . . This is a deeply haunted novel that moves with calm and ruthless determination, like the eye of a hurricane.” —Lauren LeBlanc, Los Angeles Times
“A mesmerizing story told by an impressive and captivating voice.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America by Barrett Holmes Pitner
An NPR Best Book of the Year
"Pitner's insightful, entirely original argument provides a fascinating new way to understand American national culture and to reclaim identities suppressed by ethnocide." —Booklist
"This heavily researched book shimmers with creativity and intelligence, expertly balancing realism, optimism, and honesty . . . [A] well-argued, deeply felt treatise on the links among language, racism, and redemption." —Kirkus Reviews
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood by Krys Malcolm Belc
The New York Times Book Review, New and Noteworthy
A Harper’s Bazaar Best LGBT Book of the Year
A Rumpus Most Anticipated Book of Next Year
“[A] necessary and long overdue transmasculine account of carrying and birthing a child.” —Britni de la Cretaz, NPR
Hard Mouth: A Novel by Amanda Goldblatt
“Playfully, poetically unstable . . . What compels a woman to turn to the wilderness? What brings one, after a decade of caregiving, to exchange a terminal parent’s final vigil for the company of strangers? Goldblatt poses these questions with great assurance.” —Lisa Locascio, The New York Times Book Review
“The novel begins existential (think: Camus as an intersectional feminist), and ends with a gut punch that somehow manages a deeply felt sympathy for its characters.” —Rebekah Frumkin, NYLON
The Atlas of Reds and Blues: A Novel by Devi S. Laskar
Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
Winner of the 2020 Crook’s Corner Book Prize
Long-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
The Washington Post, 1 of 50 Notable Works of Fiction This Year
“The entire novel takes place over the course of a single morning . . . and the effect is devastatingly potent.” —Marie Claire, The Best Women’s Fiction of the Year
I served as the in-house editor of the following books for Counterpoint Press:
