Banal Nightmare Maine Winner of the California Book

Winner of the California Book Award

until you can't

updated for today's modern home cook and accompanied by breathtaking photography from Johnny Miller

Then one night on the boat

easily stored on a bookshelf

Banal Nightmare Maine Winner of the California BookA "vividly, chillingly current" (The Washington Post) novel by the author of The New Me, one of the boldest voices in American fiction "[Halle Butler's] talent lies in depicting how these sore winners think, and the quiet madness that comes from measuring every interaction in your life by what might be gained in power and status. . . . [Banal Nightmare is] her most accomplished novel." The New York Review of Books "So funny, so smart, utterly vicious