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The Ecco/Amistad Summer 2013 Fiction Sampler features excerpts from our upcoming novels and story collections: an epic, multigenerational saga of power, blood, and landPhilipp Meyer maps the legacy of violence in the American west and presents an intimate portrait of one family across two centuries. (heralded as wonderful by John Irving) beautifully wrestles with the impossibility of what could be as a woman with nowhere left to turn undergoes radical electroshock therapy. In , we meet a loving mother who is determined to make her daughter's life work out: one Excel spreadsheet at a time. The stories in (which Alice Sebold called 100% Grade-A storytelling) examine the ways in which the world we think we know can unexpectedly reveal its darker contours. In the beautifully written and epic (Nathan Englander) , three childhood friends cope with the devastating aftermath of the Great Flood of 1927 in Mississippi. is urban opera writ large (Dennis Lehane); the novel explores the reactions of a blue-collar community after a teenaged girl mysteriously disappears from the banks of their rough-hewn waterfront. And in , we inhabit the mind of Celestea smoldering 26-year-old middle school teacher who unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of her 14-year-old student.

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• Harper Collins
• The Ecco Summer 2013 Fiction Sampler