Select events planned for US bookstores and literary festivals Strong promotion to bookstores who focused heavily on Anne Garréta’s work in the past, along with bookshop owned by translator Ramadan, RiffRaff in Providence, RI Serial rights targeting The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books Print and digital publicity targeting NPR, Huffington Post, The Rumpus, Bookforum, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The White Review, Words Without Borders, World Literature Today, Asymptote, Music & Literature, Little Star, A Public Space, and others Promotion at or events pitched for Texas Book Festival, LitQuake, Brooklyn Book Festival, WordPlay, Boston Book Festival, National Book Festival, Toronto International Festival of Authors, and Winter Institute Additional publicist hired to maximize marketing & publicity potential Review copies will be sent targeting all major print and digital literary media outlets, reviewers, and booksellers; additional copies available upon request Promotion on the publisher’s website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum); and publisher’s e-newsletter

Garréta’s first novel in a decade follows the mania that descends upon a family when the father finds himself in possession of a concrete mixer. As he seeks to modernize every aspect of their lives, disaster strikes when the younger sister is subsumed by concrete. Through puns, wordplay, and dizzying verbal effect, Garréta reinvents the novel form and blurs the line between spoken and written language in an attempt to confront the elasticity of communication.