Census

By Jesse Ball

Learning that he does not have long to live, a widower needs to figure out how to provide for his developmentally disabled adult son. Taking a job as a census taker, the two leave on a cross-countr...

Census

By Jesse Ball

Samedi the Deafness

By Jesse Ball

One morning in the park James Sim discovers a man, crumpled on the ground, stabbed in the chest. In the man's last breath, he whispers his confession: Samedi. What follows is a spellbinding game...

Silence once begun

By Jesse Ball

March book

By Jesse Ball

A cure for suicide

By Jesse Ball

A woman "examiner" and a man, her "claimant," move into a small house where the examiner teaches the claimant the most simple functions and monitors his progress, until an encounter at a party rais...

A Cure for Suicide

By Jesse Ball

***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD***From the author of Silence Once Begun, a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates her...

How to set a fire and why

By Jesse Ball

"How to Set a Fire and Why is a blistering, singular, devastating novel by Jesse Ball ("A young genius who hits all of the right notes." --Chicago Tribune) about a teenage girl who has lost everyth...

A Cure for Suicide

By Jesse Ball

***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD***A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village. The woman is an "examiner," charged with teaching the man a series of simple functio...

How to Set a Fire and Why

By Jesse Ball

“Ball has created a voice that echoes the beloved narrators of J. D. Salinger and John Green. . . . With her tragic past, brilliant mind and subversive potential, Lucia could be thought of as...