Laird Hunt

From National Book Award finalist Laird Hunt, a novel of love and resistance inspired by the real-life events of The Battle for Crete—for readers of Michael Ondaatje and Sebastian Barry. On the third Tuesday in May, 1941, the skies over Crete filled with German planes and out came the...

She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. Neverhome tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and...

Bloomsbury presents Float Up, Sing Down by Laird Hunt, read by Holly Palance. Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Laird Hunt’s “revelatory (NYT)” story collection capturing one summer’s day in the Indiana community where the beloved National Book Award...

Two women, two secrets: one desperate and extraordinary day. In the high heat of an Indiana summer, news spreads fast. When Marvel, the local county seat, plans to lynch three young black men, word travels faster. It is August, 1930, the height of the Jim Crow era, and the prospect of the...

As a teenage girl, Ginny marries Linus Lancaster, her mother's second cousin, and moves to his Kentucky pig farm "ninety miles from nowhere"....

Bloomsbury presents Zorrie by Laird Hunt, read by Holly Palance. Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award (Fiction) “A virtuosic portrait.” –New York Times Book Review “A tender, glowing novel.” –Anthony Doerr, Guardian, “Best Books of the Year” “Pages that are polished like...

Henry, a New Yorker left destitute by circumstance and obsession, is plucked from vagrancy by a shadowy outfit whose primary business is arranging for staged murders of anxiety-ridden clients unhinged by the “events downtown”....