Kristopher Jansma Books
Why We Came to the City
"Joyful and tragic, Jansma’s book will appeal to readers who loved Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life.”—Men’s Journal“Stunning . . . A beautiful, sprawling, and generous book. Jansma is a brilliantly...
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Why we came to the city
A "novel about a tight-knit group of twentysomethings in New York whose lives are forever altered by an unexpected tragedy... Five years after their college graduation, the devoted friends once kno...
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Why We Came to the City
“Stunning . . . A beautiful, sprawling, and generous book. Jansma is a brilliantly talented writer, but he also has a unique insight into what friends mean to one another, and what it means t...
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The unchangeable spots of leopards
"Can a leopard ever really change his spots? Can a person ever change? These are the timeless questions that Kristopher Jansma asks in this enchanting debut novel about three great friends--two men...
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The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
Winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction AwardHonorable Mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award"F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson" (The Village Voice) in this inventive and witty debut a...
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The unchangeable spots of leopards
"An inventive and witty debut about a young man's quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe From as early as he can remember, the hopelessly u...
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