Literature
The Great Perhaps: A Novel
Paperback
“This ambitious, adventurous writer . . . recalls Anton Chekhov with his amused appreciation of human foibles.”—Wendy Smith, Chicago Tribune
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Paperback
Winner of the Story Prize
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Award
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel
Hardback
“There's nothing quite like a Charyn novel. . . . His sentences make a mournful and sensational clatter, like a bundle of butcher knives dropped on a cathedral floor.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
All Other Nights: A Novel
Paperback
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
"Slam-bang.…superb." —Washington Post
Tales of Desire
Paperback
"I yearned for a bad influence and boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny."—John Waters