Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner Mike W for snagging a copy of Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet.
This week, we are giving away a copy of The Withdrawal Method by Pasha Malla. The Withdrawal Method gives us worlds where Niagara Falls has run dry, where cream meant to curb skin cell rejuvenation can be purchased, and where ancient frustrated chess masters unwittingly invent machines that alter the course of history. Reminiscent of Lorrie Moore, Haruki Murakami, and George Saunders, these worlds are haunting, captivating, and constructed with a poise and precision that reaches beyond technical skill. You can read excerpts from Malla’s story “Pushing Oceans In and Pulling Oceans Out” on the Soft Skull Press website.
This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by Soft Skull Press. Counterpoint is comprised of two imprints, Counterpoint and Soft Skull Press, and in 2008, Counterpoint began publishing books in association with Sierra Club Books. Counterpoint publishes fiction, literature, and poetry in addition to nonfiction, including history, memoir, biography, and nature. Soft Skull publishes contemporary fiction, as well as graphic novels, and nonfiction, including current affairs, counterculture, and politics. Sierra Club Books publishes environmental books.
To enter the giveaway, all you have to do is comment in the space below. Make sure to tell us your email address so we can contact you if you win! We also recommend doing the following:
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- Subscribing to Soft Skull’s blog
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Winner will be chosen randomly at 12pm on Friday, December 18 and notified via email. The winner must respond to our email within 48 hours, or a new winner will be randomly selected.
Good luck!
Edit: Giveaway now closed. Congrats to this week’s winner AYESHA. Try your luck again with next week’s The Best of Philadelphia Stories from PS Books.
