Quills Finalist for General Fiction.

“[A]n absurd hybrid of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Walt Disney’s Pocahontas . . . packed with marvelous material, moving and funny and deeply provocative.” —Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World

“[W]ild, violent, mordantly hilarious.”—LA Times Book Review

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-933368-60-3 | Cloth | $25.00

Mercury Under My Tongue is an unsentimental and arresting coming-of-age story about a seventeen-year-old boy dying of bone cancer. Avoiding both misty stoicism and made-for-TV bathos, Trudel’s novel exposes the fallible body as the humanizing factor that grounds spirited adolescent talk, creating a believable, likable protagonist while weaving a compelling lyrical story.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-933368-96-2 | Trade Paper Original | $13.95

“Like Flann O’Brien on speed, Dick Wimmer dazzles with a collection of mainly Irish crazies who tumble through their wildly disheveled lives . . . Think Dylan Thomas revving a Harley Davidson through heavy traffic.” —Eamon Grennan

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-181-3 | Trade Paper | $14.95