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Garth Risk Hallberg

Biography

Garth Risk Hallberg

Garth Risk Hallberg was born in Louisiana and grew up in North Carolina. His writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The New York Times, Best New American Voices 2008, and, most frequently, The Millions; a novella, A FIELD GUIDE TO THE NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY, was published in 2007. He lives in New York with his wife and children. CITY ON FIRE is his first novel.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Books by Garth Risk Hallberg

The Second Coming
by Garth Risk Hallberg - Fiction

When 13-year-old Jolie Aspern drops her phone onto the subway tracks in 2011, her estranged dad, Ethan, seems like the furthest thing from her mind. A convicted felon and recovering addict, Ethan has long struggled to see beyond himself. But then a call from New York makes him fear his daughter’s in deeper trouble than anyone realizes. And believing he’s the only one who can save her, he decides to return home. So begins the journey that will, in time, push Jolie and Ethan --- child and adult, apart and together, different yet the same --- out past their depths. Full of yearning and revelation, THE SECOND COMING is at once an incandescent feat of storytelling and an exploration of an enduring mystery: Can the people we love ever really change?

City on Fire
by Garth Risk Hallberg - Fiction, Historical Fiction

New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city’s great fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown’s punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbor --- and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park on New Year’s Eve. When the blackout of July 13, 1977, plunges this world into darkness, each of these lives will be changed forever.

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