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  • A Cure for Suicide by Ball, Jesse
    Jesse Ball

    A Cure for Suicide

    ***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 functions--this is a chair, this is a fork, this...
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  • Autoportrait by Ball, Jesse
    Jesse Ball

    Autoportrait

    Nominated for the Chicago Review of Books Award A work of unflinching honesty, Autoportrait is a hypnotic memoir of reflection, loss, and everyday joy from one of America's best contemporary novelists Jesse Ball has produced fourteen acclaimed works of deeply empathetic absurdism in poetry...
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  • Census by Ball, Jesse
    Jesse Ball

    Census

    NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY The New York Times - Buzzfeed - Esquire - Nylon - The Boston Globe - The Huffington Post - The Chicago Tribune - The Rumpus - The AV Club - Southern Living - The Millions - The...
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  • Census by Ball, Jesse
    Jesse Ball

    Census

    NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY The New York Times - The Chicago Reader - Nylon - The Boston Globe - The Huffington Post - The Rumpus - The AV Club - Southern Living - The Millions - Buzzfeed - Esquire - Publishers...
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  • How to Set a Fire and Why by Ball, Jesse
    Jesse Ball

    How to Set a Fire and Why

    "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 a young Lisbeth Salander, or a high-IQ, antiheroic Katniss...
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  • March Book by Ball, Jesse
    Jesse Ball

    March Book

    March Book is a wonder and a revelation. A shockingly assured first collection from young poet Jesse Ball, its elegant lines and penetrating voice present a poetic symphony instead of a simple succession of individual, barely-linked poems. Craftsmanship defines this collection; it is full...
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  • Notes on My Dunce Cap by Ball, Jesse
    Jesse Ball

    Notes on My Dunce Cap

    A text for those curious about education as a context for creativity and collaboration, and for teachers who want to reconsider hierarchy in their classrooms, Jesse Ball's Notes on My Dunce Cap includes advisory material regarding the creation of syllabi and the manner in...
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  • Samedi the Deafness by Ball, Jesse
    Jesse Ball

    Samedi the Deafness

    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 of cat and mouse as James is abducted, brought to...
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  • Silence Once Begun by Ball, Jesse
    Jesse Ball

    Silence Once Begun

    Over the course of several months, eight people vanish from their homes in the same Japanese town, a single playing card found on each door. Known as "the Narito Disappearances," the crime has authorities baffled--until a confession appears on the police's doorstep, signed by...
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  • Sleep, Death's Brother by Ball, Jesse
    Jesse Ball

    Sleep, Death's Brother

    Sleep, Death's Brother is an instruction manual on dreaming for children or incarcerated persons, teaching such individuals to lucid dream and thus use their dreams to somewhat escape their situations. While it is often the case that dream life is passively experienced, acclaimed novelist...
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  • The Curfew by Ball, Jesse
    Jesse Ball

    The Curfew

    William and Molly lead a life of small pleasures, riddles at the kitchen table, and games of string and orange peels. All around them a city rages with war. When the uprising began, William's wife was taken, leaving him alone with their young daughter....
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  • The Divers' Game by Ball, Jesse
    Jesse Ball

    The Divers' Game

    From the inimitable mind of award-winning author Jesse Ball, a novel about an unsettlingly familiar society that has renounced the concept of equality--and the devastating consequences of unmitigated powerThe old-fashioned struggle for fairness has finally been abandoned. It was a misguided endeavor. The world...
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  • The Repeat Room by Ball, Jesse
    Jesse Ball

    The Repeat Room

    Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America's most brilliant and distinctive writers In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system...
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  • The Village on Horseback: Prose and Verse, 2003-2008 by Ball, Jesse
    Jesse Ball

    The Village on Horseback: Prose and Verse, 2003-2008

    From the author of A Cure for Suicide and Census comes a philosophical recasting of myth and legend, folklore and popular culture: a fabulist's compendium of poetry and prose.Jesse Ball--long-listed for the National Book Award, a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young...
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  • The Way Through Doors by Ball, Jesse
    Jesse Ball

    The Way Through Doors

    With his debut novel, Samedi the Deafness, Jesse Ball emerged as one of our most extraordinary new writers. Now, Ball returns with this haunting tale of love and storytelling, hope and identity. When Selah Morse sees a young woman get hit by a speeding...
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