Son of Amity(1st Edition) by PeterNathanielMalae Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2018 by Oregon State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87071-945-5, ISBN: 0-87071-945-9
"Three lives on the verge of ruin intersect in the small Oregon town of Amity: Pika, a half-Samoan ex-con from California, seeks to deliver justice to his sister’s rapist; Michael, a five-tour Iraq War Marine, faces the cracked mirror of his own embattled soul; and Sissy, a recent convert to Catholicism, must resist the lure of ruthless self-judgment and discover what love is. Determined to escape the past, these characters find themse ..."
Our Frail Blood by PeterNathanielMalae Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2013 by Grove Press, Black Cat ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-2078-6, ISBN: 0-8021-2078-4
""Malae is like a young Nelson Algren or Richard Wright, one of those writers who can hit with both hands." Russell Banks By way of Italy, the Felice family puts down new roots in Southern California, settling into a grand Victorian home and buying a share of the great American Dream. But for their five, first-generation children, an idyllic childhood didn t quite translate into success and happiness. Rather, the pressures of living up t ..."
What We Are(Reprint) by PeterNathanielMalae Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2011 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4522-2, ISBN: 0-8021-4522-1
"A New York Times Editors' Choice and a blazing and authentic new literary voice, Peter Nathaniel Malae's raw and powerful, bullet-fast debut novel looks at contemporary America through the eyes of one disillusioned son. What We Are follows twenty-eight-year-old Samoan-American Paul Tusifale as he strives to find his place in a culture that barely acknowledges his existence. Within San Jose's landscape of sprawling freeways and dotcom he ..."
Teach the Free Man(1st Edition) Stories by PeterNathanielMalae Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2007 by Swallow Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8040-1098-6, ISBN: 0-8040-1098-6
"The twelve stories in Teach the Free Man mark the impressive debut of Peter Nathaniel Malae. The subject of incarceration thematically links the stories, yet their range extends beyond the prison s barbed wire and iron bars. Avoiding sensationalism, Malae exposes the heart and soul in those dark, seemingly inaccessible corridors of the human experience. The stories, often raw and startlingly honest, are distinguished by the colloquial ..."
What We Are(1st Edition) by PeterNathanielMalae Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2010 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1907-0, ISBN: 0-8021-1907-7
"A New York Times Editors’ Choice and a blazing and authentic new literary voice, Peter Nathaniel Malae’s raw and powerful, bullet-fast debut novel looks at contemporary America through the eyes of one disillusioned son.What We Are follows twenty-eight-year-old Samoan-American Paul Tusifale as he strives to find his place in a culture that barely acknowledges his existence. Within San Jose’s landscape of sprawling freeways and dotcom hea ..."
Teach the Free Man(1st Edition) Stories by PeterNathanielMalae Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2007 by Swallow Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8040-1099-3, ISBN: 0-8040-1099-4
"The twelve stories in Teach the Free Man mark the impressive debut of Peter Nathaniel Malae. The subject of incarceration thematically links the stories, yet their range extends beyond the prison’s barbed wire and iron bars. Avoiding sensationalism, Malae exposes the heart and soul in those dark, seemingly inaccessible corridors of the human experience. The stories, often raw and startlingly honest, are distinguished by the colloquial ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:Gregory J. Wolos Boy Strangling Goose But the terrifying, breathtaking span of those spread wings had stopped Reilly dead--he couldn't even raise his cane against the wild thing's attack. Andra Nicolescu The Dead Romanians have this weird thing about the dead, you see. Until the twenty-first century, we kept them in our living rooms. We couldn't let them go. Who wants t ..."
Our Frail Blood by PeterNathanielMalae 448 Pages, Published 2013 by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-9371-1, ISBN: 0-8021-9371-4
"... walk along the Guadalupe Creek Trail, a signed studio photo of Irish bal-
ladeers called the Geriatrics of St. Patrick, each frame free of dust and
symmetrically hung, a glass case from ceiling to floor with board games and
dominoes and decks of cards inside it, plus a shelf of paperbacks, mysteries and
romances, another shelf of DVD classics like The Magnificent Seven and
Casablanca and the original Willy Wonka & the Chocolate ..."
"Who tempers the cerebral undercurrents of a certain novelist, which is to say
tempers his nuttiness, who's so down for this novelist she's way up on everyone
else, who's listened on two hours sleep at 3:13 a.m. to eight-thousand word
chapter excerpts while the novelist masticated barbecue Cornuts ... to finger,
explain, and finally read passages from, and who, when this novelist pressed, “
You do think someone will take it?” not onl ..."