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Kristopher Jansma, author of Why We Came to the City

Five years after their college graduation, five devoted friends remain as inseparable as ever. Amid cheerful revelry and free-flowing champagne at a posh holiday party, they toast themselves and the new year ahead --- a year that holds many surprises in store. They must navigate ever-shifting relationships with New York City and with one another, determined to push onward in pursuit of their precarious dreams. And when a devastating blow brings their momentum to a halt, the group is forced to reexamine their aspirations and chart new paths through unexpected losses.

Week of May 1, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of May 1st include THE WEEKENDERS by Mary Kay Andrews, in which Riley Griggs' anticipated summer of good times with friends and family on Belle Island takes an unexpected turn when her husband fails to arrive on the ferry and is nowhere to be found; HOMEGOING, Yaa Gyasi's award-winning debut novel that follows the parallel paths of two half sisters and their descendants through eight generations --- from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem; THE TWENTY-THREE, the jaw-dropping finale of Linwood Barclay's Promise Falls Trilogy; and BENEATH A SCARLET SKY by Mark Sullivan, the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.