After Birth Condition:Very Good Now in this new collection

Now in this new collection of stories--several of which have never before appeared in print and more than half that have never been collected--that will dazzle the senses and haunt the imagination

from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets

You Can Beat Your Brain is a pocket-sized primer packed with wry humour and astonishing facts

parallel world is spun off the existing one

After Birth Condition:Very Good Now in this new collectionA widely acclaimed young writers fierce new novel, in which childbirth and new motherhood are as high stakes a proving ground as any combat zoneA year has passed since Ari gave birth to Walker, though it went so badly awry she has trouble calling it birth and still she can't locate herself in her altered universe. Amid the strange, disjointed rhythms of her days and nights and another impending winter in upstate New York, Ari is a tree without roots,