Garth Risk Hallberg
GARTH RISK HALLBERG’s first novel, City on Fire, was a New York Times and international best seller and was selected as one of the best books of 2015 by The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Guardian, and Vogue, among others. It was adapted into the Apple TV+ series of the same name. He is also the author of the novella A Field Guide to the North American Family. In 2017, Granta named him one of the Best of Young American Novelists. His work has been translated into seventeen languages.
COMING MAY 2024
The Second Coming
The Second Coming is at once an incandescent feat of storytelling and an exploration of an enduring mystery: Can the people we love ever really change? Rich with music and pathos and passion, this beautifully attuned work of fiction renews the extraordinary promise of this writer’s “boundless and unflagging talents” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).
PRAISE FOR THE SECOND COMING
“Garth Risk Hallberg’s great gift is his ability to translate epic themes into intensely intimate, cumulatively powerful novels. Full of tension and emotion and populated by vivid characters and ideas, The Second Coming builds word by word to capture the intricacies of life while revealing its own breathtaking scope. ”
—Christina Baker Kline, author of #1 New York Times best seller Orphan Train
NATIONWIDE BESTSELLER
City on Fire
A mystery that reverberates through families, friendships, and the corridors of power in New York and “captures the city’s dangerous, magnetic allure” (The New York Times). Streaming now on Apple TV+
“As close to a great American novel as this century has produced.” —Stephen King
PRAISE FOR CITY ON FIRE
“A symphonic epic…big, stunning…novel of head-snapping ambition and heart-stopping power [that] attests to its young author’s boundless and unflagging talents.”
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
FULL-COLOR EDITION
A Field Guide to
the North American Family
A piercingly beautiful treasure box of a novella about two families in the suburbs. Part art object, part Choose Your Own Adventure, A Field Guide to the North American Family is an innovative and deeply personal look at the ties that bind and a poignant meditation on connection in a fragmented world.