Bøger udgivet af Rubber Tree Press

When Roscoe Jones, a one-time trumpet prodigy, loses his finger, he loses more than his ability to play. Instead of becoming a musician, he becomes the superintendent of the Chicago apartment building where he has lived since birth. Very soon, his life is no longer his own; he fades into the background, plumbing and fixing and toiling for the tenants populating the eleven stories above him. Although they hardly notice him as anything but a working part of the building, he develops a sometimes uncomfortable intimacy with the details of their complicated lives. Every night, in the privacy of his basement quarters, alone with his secret longings, he plays his trumpet. That is until the evening he climbs to the roof to play in public for the first time in fifty years - and the course of his life is irrevocably changed. For some, losses may turn, unexpectedly, to gain. For Roscoe, the relationships he forms with the tenants - two, in particular - justify the amputation of his finger and the forfeiture of his dreams. This is a story about sacrifice and service, longing and love - and the abiding hopefulness of the human heart that connects us all. AWARDS Best Indie General Fiction 2013 (Kirkus Reviews) Gold Medal, Popular Fiction, 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Book of the Month, January 2014 (AiA) Silver Medal, Popular Fiction, 2014 eLit Awards

Irene Marston moves from Manhattan with her businessman husband to his hometown in Iowa. Stranded in a small town on the shore of a sea of cornfields, she looks for rescue in her painting, unlikely friendships and sex. At the same time she creates a fantasy journal of a successful life in New York and another journal where she describes the paintings she plans to paint. As her life unravels, she is plagued by the romantically addled fans of The Bridges of Madison County, who know about her husband's infidelity and see her as open to anything.

The poems in Bugs have Us Surrounded deals directly with bugs and people at the same time. It is ironic and serious, careful of sound and expansive in diction. The cover and the illustrations are by Canadian-Puerto Rican artist MaryAnn Mackinnon.