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Debuts 2001

Page Modified: February 11, 2008

A list featuring some selected first novels and debut short story collections (mostly hardcover). This list may not be comprehensive. First novel information is collected from a variety of sources. Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine - unless otherwise noted.

First Novels: 2001

• Gob's Grief
  Author: Adrian, Chris
  Publisher: Broadway $ 24.95 ISBN: 0767902815
  Kirkus LJ
  In 1863, 11-year-old Tomo Woodhill runs off to fight in the Civil War, during which he takes a bullet in the eye and dies. His brother, Gob, grows up in a state of grief. As an adult studying to be a doctor in New York City, he has an idea to build a machine that might bring Tomo--indeed, all the war dead--back to life.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars | Civil War Stars
  
  
• The Love Artist
  Author: Alison, Jane
  Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux $ 23 ISBN: 0374231796 Date: 2001
  Kirkus
  A darkly brilliant first novel that imagines a missing chapter in the life of Ovid, the most popular author of his day. Why do only two lines survive of his play Medea, reputedly his most passionate work? Between the known details of the poet's life and these enigmas, Alison has interpolated a haunting drama of passion and psychological manipulation.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars | Poets
  Updated 1/19/01
• In Beautiful Disguises
  Author: Balasubramanyam, Rajeev
  Publisher: Bloomsbury $ 14.95 (paper) ISBN: 1582341273
  LJ
  In this wildly original debut, a 16-year-old Indian girl flees an arranged marriage and runs away to New Delhi to work as a maid. There she falls in with the misfit members of her new household; but even as she embraces this brave new world, she realizes she can't run forever.
  
• The Salt Letters
  Author: Balint, Christine
  Publisher: Norton $ 12 (trade paper) ISBN: 0393321606
  Kirkus
  This beautifully crafted debut novel is the sensuous evocation of a young woman's sea journey in 1854 from refined England to the wilds of Australia.
  
• The Ash Garden
  Author: Bock, Dennis
  Publisher: Knopf $ 23 ISBN: 0375413022 Date: 2001
  Kirkus
  Triangulating the fates of three separate people, this debut novel reveals the true costs of the August 1945 nightmare unleashed in a blinding flash by the Enola Gay.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars | World Wars Stars
  Updated 8/14/01
• A False Sense of Wellbeing
  Author: Braselton, Jeanne
  Publisher: Ballantine $ 23.95 ISBN: 034544311x Date: 2001
  Library Journal
  Braselton pens a funny, poignant debut about loneliness in marriage, secrets and the power of confession, and the sometimes desperate things women do to inject passion and meaning into their lives.
  Updated 9/17/01
• Greetings from the Golden State
  Author: Brenner, Leslie
  Publisher: Holt $ 23 ISBN: 0805065644
  PW
  Updated 12/7/00
• Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
  Author: Brooks, Geraldine
  Publisher: Viking $ 24.95 ISBN: 067091021x
  PW
  A young woman comes of age during an extraordinary year of love and death as she and her community are tested by one of the greatest catastrophes ever to befall England. This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village", in the rugged mountain spine of England in 1666.
  
• Troublemaker and Other Saints
  Author: Chiu, Christina
  Publisher: Putnam $ 23.95 ISBN: 0399147152 Date: 2001
  PW Kirkus
  Old and young, East and West, humor and pain collide in this debut novel as the life of one character weaves into that of another, and then another, bringing unlikely figures face to face, strengthening and illuminating each other in surprising ways.
  Suggested Reading: Asian American Stars
  Updated 2/21/01
• Mirabilis
  Author: Cokal, Susann
  Publisher: Blue Hen $ 25.95 ISBN: 0399147535
  LJ
  Villeneuve, France, Anno Domini 1372. The village is under siege and people are starving when Bonne Mirabilis, wet nurse to the wealthiest and most enigmatic woman in town, realizes that she alone has the bounty with which to feed the hungry. With a masterly sense of history and the visceral spirit of The Decameron, newcomer Susan Cokal combines the outrageous and wondrous story of Bonne, a woman born God's bastard, on her way to sainthood with a troop of ascetics, mystics, lovers and jesters who keep her milk flowing. - From the book jacket.
  
• The Muse Asylum
  Author: Czuchlewski, David
  Publisher: Putnam $ 23.95 ISBN: 0399147454
  Kirkus PW
  In this breath-snatching first novel of love, madness and artistic identity, a young genius's obsession with a reclusive writer consumes those around him, as they begin to learn the dark truths that lurk beneath the surface of the relationship.
  Who is Horace Jacob Little? Check out the Muse Asylum web site.
  
• Moon Women
  Author: Duncan, Pamela
  Publisher: Dell $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385335180
  LJ
  From debut novelist Duncan comes a mesmerizing tale of family and love, revelation and forgiveness--a portrait of three generations of women, separated by a secret only one of them can tell.
  
• Gabriel's Story
  Author: Durham, David Anthony
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385498144
  PW Booklist Kirkus
  In this literary debut, Durham recounts the adventures and trials of a black pioneer family in the late 1870s. At the center of the story is Gabriel, a young man who moves reluctantly from the urban North with his mother and younger brother to join his stepfather, a homesteader in Kansas. When he runs away to become a cowboy, his search for excitement brings trouble and danger.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars | Western Stars
  
• Rides of the Midway
  Author: Durkee, Lee
  Publisher: Norton $ 25.95 ISBN: 039304971x
  Kirkus
  Funny and dark, Rides of the Midway is a brilliantly told story about a boy whose life spins completely out of control. He is haunted by the specter of the boy he knocked into a coma while sliding into home in Little League and by the spirit of his father who died in Vietnam. But Noel is equally haunted by his embarrassing failures with girls and his own dark secrets.
  
• The Crusader
  Author: Eisner, Michale Alexander
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 24.95 ISBN: 0385502818
  Booklist
  Set in 1275 Spain, this work is a rousing historical novel about Francisco Montcada, a Crusader with a heavy heart. Eisner makes history come to life as he writes of knights, torture, romance, religious fervor, vows, quests, sieges and villainy.
  
• Peace Like a River
  Author: Enger, Leif
  Publisher: Atlantic Monthly $ 24 ISBN: 087113795x
  Booklist PW
  Through the voice of 11-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy obsessed with cowboys living in 1960s Minnesota, the story is told of the Land family's cross-country search for Reuben's outlaw older brother, who has been charged with murder.
  
• The Ten Thousand: A Novel of Ancient Greece
  Author: Ford, Michael Curtis
  Publisher: Thomas Dunne (St Martins) $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312269463
  LJ
  In the spring of 400 B.C., ten thousand battered Greek soldiers stagger out of the frozen mountains of Armenia into a small Hellenic trading post on the eastern Black Sea. Their stunning tale of survival is the source of this epic debut in the tradition of Gates of Fire.
  
• Rising Sun: Being the True Account of the Voyage of the Great Ship of That Name, the Author's Adventures in the Wastes of the New World . . .
  Author: Galbraith, Douglas
  Publisher: Atlantic $ 25 ISBN: 087113781x
  Kirkus
  In 1698, five vessels led by the flagship Rising Sun embarked on a perilous voyage for what is now Panama, where the passengers intended to found a colony at Darien. With them went the hopes and fortunes of the nation of Scotland, which sought to build an overseas empire so that it could compete on the world stage with England. Galbraith's debut novel is the story of this mission and its tragic outcome, as recorded by the ship's superintendent of cargoes, Roderick Mackenzie.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars | Sea Stories
  
• Carter Beats the Devil
  Author: Gold, Glen David
  Publisher: Hyperion $ 24.95 ISBN: 0786867345
  Booklist PW
  Filled with historical references that evoke the excesses and enthusiasm of postwar, pre-Depression America, Carter Beats the Devil is the complex and illuminating story of one man's journey through a magical, and sometimes dangerous world.
  Guardian First Book Award Nominee.
  Carter Beats the Devil web site
  
• Kissing the Virgin's Mouth
  Author: Gershten, Donna M.
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 23 ISBN: 0060185678 Date: 2001
  Kirkus
  Gershten pens a stunning debut novel and the first winner of Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for a work of socially or politically engaged fiction. Magda climbs from the poor barrio of a Mexican town to American affluence, from wide-eyed childhood to worldly courtesan life, from full-blooded youth to oncoming blindness in middle age.
  Updated 1/19/01
  
• Juno and Juliet
  Author: Gough, Julian
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385501722
  PW LJ Booklist
  Written by the fresh, new Irish voice of Julian Gough, Juno & Juliet is an intelligent and lighthearted tale of two beautiful sisters who experience university life in Galway and the radiance of newfound love.
  
• Field Guide
  Author: Gross, Gwendoline
  Publisher: Henry Holt $ 23 ISBN: 0805064923
  Kirkus
  
• Staircase of a Thousand Steps
  Author: Hamilton, Masha
  Publisher: Blue Hen $ 23.95 ISBN:039914725x
  Kirkus
  In a remote desert village of storytellers and seers, the accidental revelation of long-held secrets, including a forbidden love affair, unravels a young girl's world.
  
• Watch by Moonlight
  Author: Hawks, Kate
  Publisher: Morrow $ 24 ISBN: 038081465x
  Inspired by Alfred Noyes's poem, The Highwayman, this bittersweet tale of romance, triumph and tragedy is set against the shadowy backdrop of 18th-century England.
  
• Student of Weather
  Author: Hay, Elizabeth
  Publisher: Counterpoint $ 24 ISBN: 158243123x Date: 2001
  Booklist PW Kirkus
  On the prairie of Dust Bowl Canada, two sisters fall down the same well, and the well is named Maurice Dove. Spanning 30 years, this brilliant first novel is a Canadian bestseller about the rivalry between Lucinda and Norma-Joyce and the stranger who changes both of their lives forever.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 12/7/00
• Bread Alone
  Author: Hendricks, Judith Ryan
  Publisher: Morrow $ 25 ISBN: 0060188952
  A mouth-watering novel from new author Hendricks rises to the occasion as a woman devastated by divorce finds redemption working at a small-town bakery.
  
• The Drink and Dream Teahouse
  Author: Hill, Justin
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 23.95 ISBN: 0316824003
  Kirkus
  From a spellbinding storyteller comes a luscious novel set in contemporary rural China that explores the tumult of life post-Tiananmen Square.
  
• Ill Met By Moonlight
  Author: Hoyt, Sarah A.
  Publisher: Ace $ 21.95 ISBN: 0441008607
  This enchanting fantasy debut begins with the disappearance of young Will Shakespeare's wife and newborn daughter--a mystery that draws the Bard into a realm beyond imagination.
• Lick Creek
  Author: Kessler, Brad
  Publisher: Scribner $ 24 ISBN: 0743201604
  PW Kirkus
  
• The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters
  Author: Kidd, Chip
  Publisher: Scriber $ 24 ISBN: 0743214927
  Booklist
  A witty debut novel that could only be described as a portrait of the designer as a young man.
  
• The Rich Part of Life
  Author: Kokoris, Jim
  Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312274793
  PW
  After Teddy loses his mother to a car accident, his father plays the lottery, with his wife's old numbers, and wins $190 million, immediately transforming their lives forever. For the first time, the family must learn what "the rich part of life" really is.
  
• Justus Girls
  Author: Lambright, Slim
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24 ISBN: 0060184760
  In her debut novel, Lambright spins an engaging tale about four African-American pre-teens who band together to form the Justus Girlz, a crack drill team in the 1960s. Decades later, the sudden death of one reunites the others to investigate what happened to their fallen friend.
  
• A Man and a Woman and a Man
  Author: Liebrecht, Savyon
  Publisher: Persea $ 24.95 ISBN: 0892552662
  Kirkus
  Intertwining mourning and passion, this critically acclaimed bestseller from Israel follows a married woman who has an affair with a stranger she meets in the nursing home where her mother and his father are dying.
  
• Juniper Tree Burning
  Author: Long, Goldberry M.
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: 0743202031
  LJ PW
  This debut novel captures the unadulterated legacy of the 1960s counter-culture as it is lived three decades later by the flower children's children.
  
• Schooling
  Author: McGowan, Heather
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 24.95 ISBN: 0385501382
  Booklist
  Catrine Evans, a young American, is sent to an English boarding school after her mother dies of cancer. Memories of Isabelle, the best friend she left behind in Maine, give way to dreams haunted by images of an accidental death she believes they caused before she left for England.
  
• Edgewater Angels
  Author: Meallet, Sandro
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 22.95 ISBN: 038550151x
  LJ
  For Sunny Toomer, growing up in the projects of San Pedro, California, is not easy. In Toomer's uninhibited, often amusing first-person narrative, Meallet conveys the authentic voices of the street in lush, uniquely poetic prose.
  
• The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon
  Author: Meidav, Edie
  Publisher: Houghton $ 25 ISBN: 0618013660
  PW
  Meidav explores the tragedy of colonialism in an epic first novel of stirring intensity. It's 1936, the world is sliding into war, and Henry Fyre Gould has left behind the salons and sheepish spiritualists of New York City for the British Colony of Ceylon. Expecting to win the people's hearts, Henry instead begins to slowly unravel on a hallucinatory journey through madness and ultimately to salvation.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars
  
• In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd
  Author: Menendez, Ana
  Publisher: Grove $ 23 ISBN:0802116884 Date: 2001
  Booklist
  This debut collection of tales about Cuban immigrants attempting to make new lives in America is presented by a Pushcart Prize winner, touching on themes of the hopes and disappointments of post-revolutionary Castro Cuba, cultural ties that bind family, and more.
  Suggested Reading: Latino/Latina Stars
  Updated 4/26/01
• Grand Ambitions
  Author: Michaels, Lisa
  Publisher: Norton $ 23.95 ISBN: 0393050475
  LJ
  A first novel about love, adventure, and one couple's reckless daring. A pair of young newlyweds sets out to run the rapids of the Grand Canyon in a homemade boat. A month later they vanished without a trace.
  
• Personal Velocity
  Author: Miller, Rebecca
  Publisher: Grove $ 23 ISBN: 080211699x Date: 2001
  Library Journal
  In a powerful debut, Miller's collection of edgy, modern stories explores the multifaceted lives of women in seven arresting portraits. These women of different classes and ages struggle with sexuality, fate, motherhood, infidelity, desperation, and an overriding will to survive.
  Updated 7/5/01
• Kit's Law
  Author: Morrissey, Donna
  Publisher: Mariner $ 13 (trade paper) ISBN: 0618109277 Date: 2001
  PW Kirkus Booklist
  Kit Pitman lives with her unstable mother in a cottage on the outer banks of Newfoundland. Her life is compounded by the mystery that surrounds her illegitimate birth. Morrissey depicts the way the lines between mother and daughter, although blurred, are deeply felt. Kit's Law marks the debut of a new talent.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 4/19/01
• My Dream of You
  Author: O'Faolain, Nuala
  Publisher: Riverhead $ 25.95 ISBN: 1573221775 Date: 2001
  Booklist
  When a travel writer realizes the painful cost of her refugee existence, she returns to Ireland to investigate the true story of a scandalous affair between the wife of an English landlord and an Irish servant during the latter years of the famine. The greatly anticipated first novel by the author of the bestselling Are You Somebody? is a love story within a love story and a historical novel within a contemporary one. This grand debut tells of parallel lives, 150 years apart, driven by a hunger for passionate love.
  Updated 12/7/00
• After You'd Gone
  Author: O'Farrell, Maggie
  Publisher: Viking $ 24.95 ISBN: 0670894486
  LJ
  Alice Raikes lies in a coma in Scotland after an accident that may or may not have been a suicide attempt. With her life hanging in the balance, Alice's family gathers. As they wait, argue, and remember, long-buried tensions rise. Alice, meanwhile, slides between different levels of consciousness, recalling her past and a recent love affair.
  
• Leaving Disneyland
  Author: Parsons, Alexander
  Publisher: St Martins $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312278551
  Kirkus
  
• The Rag and Bone Shop
  Author: Rackham, Jeff
  Publisher: Zoland $ 25 ISBN: 1581951051
  PW
  Rackham pens a novel of Charles Dickens's very real, but little known, excursion outside the bounds of Victorian morality; an engrossing tale that illuminates the warring demands of public property and private libertinism.
  
• The Music of the Spheres
  Author: Redfern, Elizabeth
  Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399147632
  Kirkus
  In the London of 1795, intrigue and death walk the dark streets. England is at war with its neighbor and nemesis, France, and espionage is rampant. It is the job of Jonathan Absey at the Home Office to catch the spies, but his mind is elsewhere, his dreams haunted by the unsolved murder of his fifteen-year-old daughter in these same streets. - From the book jacket.
  
• The Third Witch
  Author: Reisert, Rebecca
  Publisher: Washington Square Press $ 25 ISBN: 0743417712
  Reisert's mesmerizing first novel re-imagines Macbeth, Shakespeare's classic tragedy of power and madness, through the eyes of a mysterious young girl on a dangerous quest for vengeance.
• Speed of Light
  Author: Rosner, Elizabeth
  Publisher: Ballantine $ 23.95 ISBN: 0345442245
  Booklist
  From a prize-winning poet, The Speed of Light is a compelling novel of remembrance in which the sorrows of the past inspire a love story for the present.
  
• The Dark Room
  Author: Seiffert, Rachel
  Publisher: Pantheon $ 24 ISBN: 0375421041
  Kirkus LJ
  A debut work of major importance, this novel retells the history of 20th-century Germany through the experiences of three ordinary Germans before, during and after World War II.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars & World Wars Stars
  
• Aria
  Author: Segal, Susan
  Publisher: Bridge Works $ 23.95 ISBN: 1882593456
  PW
  A woman's tragedy, unwanted celebrity and an opera star benefactor with less than noble motives all figure into this unusual tale of chance, fate and operatic lives.
  
• The Savage Girl
  Author: Shakar, Alex
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 26 ISBN: 0066209870
  Booklist
  A magical, mysterious novel explores the effects of consumerism on individuals and society as a whole. Ursula Van Urden arrives in the volcano-shadowed metropolis of Middle City in the wake of her fashion model sister and attempts to "find the future".
  
• White Swan, Black Swan
  Author: Sharp, Adrienne
  Publisher: Random $ 21.95 ISBN: 0375504206 Date: 2001
  Booklist
  An assured fiction debut that finds in the rarefied world of ballet a metaphor for yearning, ambition and desire. Each bittersweet story plants the reader amid a cast of dancers and choreographers who struggle to find in the rigorous discipline and beauty of ballet a counterbalance to the chaos of unscripted life.
  Updated 6/20/01
• The Dark Room
  Author: Seiffert, Rachel
  Publisher: Pantheon $ 24 ISBN: 0375421041Date: 2001
  Kirkus LJ
  A debut work of major importance, this novel retells the history of 20th-century Germany through the experiences of three ordinary Germans before, during and after World War II.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars | World Wars Stars
  Updated 5/10/01
• Lightning Field
  Author: Spiotta, Dana
  Publisher: Scribner $ 23 ISBN: 0743212614
  PW
  Mina's chosen way of slowing down, of sifting through the rubble of her complex life, is to do the thing that is unthinkable in L.A.: walk. Exploring the fetishes that hold the City of Angels in their grip--movies, restaurants, self-image, sex--Spiotta delves into the language, humor, and beauty of obsession, and into the varied ways in which women cope, or don't, with their particular relationship to contemporary culture.
  
• Death of Vishnu
  Author: Suri, Manil
  Publisher: Norton $ 24.95 ISBN: 0393050424
  PW
  Suffused with Hindu mythology, this story of one apartment building becomes a metaphor for the social and religious divisions of contemporary India, and Vishnu's ascent of the staircase parallels the soul's progress through the various stages of existence. As Vishnu closes in on the riddle of his own mortality, readers ponder whether he might not be the god Vishnu, guardian not only of the fate of the building and its occupants, but of the entire universe.
  Updated 11/15/00
• The Huntsman
  Author: Terrell, Whitney
  Publisher: Viking $ 25.95 ISBN: 0670894656
  Kirkus PW
  When a young debutant's body washes up in the Missouri River, her death--and the ensuing investigation--forces the Kansas City's inhabitants to examine their own buried history. This debut novel is authored by a writer-in-residence at Rockhurst University.
  
• The Good People of New York
  Author: Nissen, Thisbe
  Publisher: Knopf $ 23 ISBN: 06705411453 Date: 2001
  Booklist
  In this luminous first novel from a gifted writer, Roz Rosenzweig experiences a love so fierce for her infant daughter that it might crowd out everything else in her life, including her marriage.
  Updated 4/26/01
• The Heart of the Beast
  Author: Weatherford, Joyce
  Publisher: Scribner $ 25 ISBN: 0743211790
  Kirkus
  To save her family ranch, 28-year-old Iris Steele must delve into her family history, unearthing not only her own ancestry, but also the tangled relationships between generations of homesteaders and Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest. A debut novel inspired by the author's family history.
  
• Lit Life
  Author: Wenzel, Kurt
  Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 0375505512
  Set in Manhattan and the Hamptons, Lit Life is a romp through the world of two writers: Kyle Clayton, a "once hot" young author, and Richard Whitehurst, his literary hero. As these two collide, each finds in the other the crutch he has been seeking.
• The Catsitters
  Author: Wolcott, James
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 25 ISBN: 0060194146
  LJ
  Renowned for his barbed wire wit, Vanity Fair literary critic Wolcott turns his wicked eye on the vagaries of romance in this viciously funny debut novel about the ways men and women communicate--and don't--in the never-ending search for a soulmate.
  

Short Story Debut Collections: 2001

• The Brutal Language of Love: Stories
  Author: Erian, Alicia
  Publisher: Villard $ 21.95 ISBN: 0375504788
  PW
  Updated 2/8/01
• Come Up and See Me Sometime: Stories
  Author: Krouse, Erika
  Publisher: Scribner $ 22 ISBN: 0743202449
  Kirkus PW
  Each of the 13 stories in this collection is underscored by the brassy spirit of Mae West. Come Up and See Me Sometime is a thought-provoking rant, surprising readers with mirror images of the fears, foibles, and facades of their own lives.
  Updated 5/10/01
• Sap Rising
  Author: Lincoln, Christine
  Publisher: Pantheon $ 20 ISBN: 0375421408
  LJ
  A powerful debut collection of wise and assured stories includes tales of bedeviled and struggling young African Americans whose lives unfold in rural settings as distinctive as the characters themselves.
  
• Personal Velocity
  Author: Miller, Rebecca
  Publisher: Grove $ 23 ISBN: 080211699x
  LJ
  In a powerful debut, Miller's collection of edgy, modern stories explores the multifaceted lives of women in seven arresting portraits. These women of different classes and ages struggle with sexuality, fate, motherhood, infidelity, desperation, and an overriding will to survive.
  
• White Swan, Black Swan
  Author: Sharp, Adrienne
  Publisher: Random $ 21.95 ISBN: 0375504206
  Booklist
  An assured fiction debut that finds in the rarefied world of ballet a metaphor for yearning, ambition and desire. Each bittersweet story plants the reader amid a cast of dancers and choreographers who struggle to find in the rigorous discipline and beauty of ballet a counterbalance to the chaos of unscripted life.
  

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