Ben Kostival

Elm & North, a Kirkus "Best Books of 2018" selection, explores the life of Morris Proot, who is slowly turning to bone. After a fight on his school bus ends his career as a driver, Proot grows isolated in his new job as a crossing guard. Seeking comfort, he reaches out to the foremost researcher of his disease, but when he never receives a reply, Proot confronts the one man he feels owes him answers, solace, and maybe even a little hope. Elm & North reveals a lonely struggle against a horrific disease-in other words, a comedy.

Endorsed by Howard Zinn as "an ingenious blending of fact and fiction," The Canyons unfolds through the perspective of Harlan Baxter, a corporate functionary sent to investigate a Colorado mine. When an explosion in a mine shaft precipitates a strike, Baxter fights alongside the miners in the ensuing conflict. With rounded characters, a charged moral atmosphere, and a fast-paced plot, The Canyons explores the Colorado Coalfield War of 1913-14, the most violent labor insurrection in American history.

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