Counterpoint Press

25/02/2025

Happy publication day to Thomas Kohnstamm’s SUPERSONIC! 🎉

When PTA president Sami Hasegawa-Stalworth petitions to rename a Seattle elementary school after her late grandmother, she ignites a battle over the school’s future and the history of its surrounding neighborhood. SUPERSONIC launches readers into a kaleidoscopic tale of the generations of interrelated families who breathed life into that small, hilltop community.

By exploring the converging and often clashing personalities that make up the dynamic soul of a place, SUPERSONIC illuminates themes of identity, displacement, destruction, and reinvention that give rise to all great American cities.

✨ “Kohnstamm’s remarkable achievement is to so effectively address race, class, culture, identity, and power in such a compelling, entertaining read.” — Booklist (starred review)

✨ “Readers shouldn’t miss Kohnstamm’s heartbreaking saga.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

✨“The Great Seattle novel has arrived.” —Ed Park, author of SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS

20/02/2025

Thrilled to have four of our authors on the longlist! 🏜️ Congratulations, , , , and .ervin!

Check out the full list at the link in our bio 🔗

19/02/2025

Huge congrats to for being named a finalist for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction for OLIVE DAYS! 🥳🫒

19/02/2025

🏰 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🏰 We're excited to share the jacket for Susanne Paola Antonetta's forthcoming book THE DEVIL'S CASTLE, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art direction by Nicole Caputo.

THE DEVIL'S CASTLE will hit bookstores officially on 9/23/25, but you can preorder your copy now!

About the book:
THE DEVIL'S CASTLE delves into the forgotten history of eugenics and links it to present-day psychiatry to explain how we as a culture continue to get mind care so wrong

In THE DEVIL'S CASTLE, Susanne Paola Antonetta weaves a haunting narrative that confronts the darkest chapters of psychiatric history while offering a bold vision for the future of mental health care. In 1939, the eugenics movement growing throughout the West did its worst in N**i Germany. Through the Aktion T4 euthanasia program, five asylums and an abandoned jail were transformed into gas chambers. Tens of thousands of lives—predominantly adults with neuropsychiatric conditions—were extinguished in those structures, ultimately paving the way for the horrors of the Holocaust.

Interlacing her experiences of psychosis with the complex history of psychiatry, Antonetta sheds light on the intersections of madness and societal perceptions of mental difference. She brings to life the stories of Paul Schreber and Dorothea Buck, two historical figures who act as models for mind care and acceptance.

This gripping exploration traverses the spectrum of neurodiversity, from the devastating consequences of dehumanization to the transformative potential of understanding and acceptance. With THE DEVIL'S CASTLE, Antonetta not only unearths the failures of our past, but also envisions a more compassionate, enlightened approach to consciousness and mental health care. This is a story of tragedy, resilience, and hope—a rallying cry for change that dares to challenge the limits of how we define and support the human mind.

12/02/2025

🌆 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🌆 Today we share the cover of Joan Silber's new novel, MERCY, designed by Robin Bilardello with art direction by Nicole Caputo!

MERCY goes on sale 9/2/25 and is available to preorder now.

About the book:
The rich and nuanced story of a moment of fear and abandonment that reverberates across decades and changes the course of many lives, by beloved PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Joan Silber.

In the gritty East Village of 1970s New York, Ivan and his best friend, Eddie, a popular local bartender, are dabbling in drugs following a short tour of Europe. One night, as Ivan experiments with he**in with Eddie, things go horribly wrong. Ivan rushes Eddie to a crowded local ER and, believing his friend is about to die, leaves him there.

This one act of abandonment haunts Ivan his entire life. He keeps this secret from his friends and later his family, forever searching for mercy from “the remorse that never dies.” Ivan’s decision also ripples across time through an extended community, affecting a host of other people unknowingly connected to that night.

Following a bold cast of characters across decades, and set against the changing social and sexual mores from the 1970s onward, Mercy is Silber’s most ambitious and expansive novel yet, proving once again how we are all connected in mysterious and often unknown ways.

11/02/2025

Happy paperback publication day to Rick Bass Author 's WITH EVERY GREAT BREATH! 🌄

For acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, it can be wearying to dwell relentlessly upon the broken, the fragmented, the dead and dying and doomed to extinction. Activism is a necessary part of the environmental movement, but so is the time-honored celebration of the beauty that inspires us.

Spanning his storied career, these new and selected essays attempt to take a brief step to the side, away from lamentation and prescription, to inhabit, as deeply as possible, the greater depths of the beauty in each moment. WITH EVERY GREAT BREATH ranges from the extremely local—a long-form essay about the community affected by the largest Superfund site in U.S. history, in Libby, Montana—to the far-flung: the Galápagos, Namibia, and Alaska. Throughout, Bass offers a portrait of our planet that is always alert to its wonders, even in the face of environmental crisis.

🌿 Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award

🌿 "Amiable tales from a natural-born storyteller . . . Readers will enjoy dipping in and out of thoughtful, heartfelt essays oozing with sentiment and affability." — Kirkus Reviews

07/02/2025

🔥 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🔥 We are thrilled to share the cover of Victor Suthammanont's forthcoming novel HOLLOW SPACES! Designed by Robin Bilardello with art direction by Nicole Caputo.

This one hits bookstores on 8.5.25 and is available to preorder now!

About the book:
The sole Asian American partner at a prestigious law firm sees his professional and personal life demolished when he is put on trial for murder. Three decades later, his children reunite to uncover the truth and try to salvage what remains of their family

Thirty years ago, John Lo, the only Asian American partner at a prestigious New York City law firm, was acquitted of the murder of an employee he was having an affair with. The repercussions of that long-ago event still haunt his adult children. Brennan, a lawyer following in her father’s footsteps in more ways than one, has always maintained that the trial got it right. Hunter, a disgruntled war correspondent whose similarities to his father run more than skin-deep, believes their father got away with murder. Their convictions have pushed them apart. Now, spurred on by their mother’s failing health, the estranged siblings decide to reconcile their differences by reinvestigating the murder to come to a definitive conclusion, and, in the process, salvage what’s left of their fragmented family.

Told in a dual timeline that moves between John’s perspective thirty years prior and Brennan and Hunter’s present-day investigation, HOLLOW SPACES is a moving portrait of a flawed man’s shocking fall from grace and a gripping exploration of race in corporate America, filial loyalty, ambition, and the fallout of a sensational trial for those caught in its wake.

06/02/2025

“I don’t want to call it a history of Seattle, I wanted to do more of an updated creation myth for the city. So many people that move here, they know about grunge or whatever. But it’s not a really well-defined place. It’s a young city on the edge of the world.” —Author Thomas Kohnstamm on his forthcoming novel SUPERSONIC via The Seattle Times

Local author Thomas Kohnstamm's new book, "Supersonic," is an intergenerational story that takes place in Seattle in the 19th century, the 1970s and the 2010s.

06/02/2025

Early praise is rolling in for THE MIGRANT RAIN FALLS IN REVERSE! calls it "Inventive. . . [Nguyen] nimbly transports readers to a blurry past and immerses them in the biographical ambiguities of life as a refugee."

New Quarterly editor Nguyen (Lived Refuge) reflects on his father’s life and his own experiences as a Vietnam War refugee in thi...

03/02/2025

Only 3 more weeks until SUPERSONIC hits bookstores! Join for these upcoming launch events to celebrate 📚✨

27/01/2025

"The beauty is in Kauffman’s skill at creating characters that feel real and recognizable. . . I'LL COME TO YOU is a beautiful meditation on family, grief, love and the tiny moments that make up a life." — PureWow

‘I’ll Come to You’ is a new novel by Rebecca Kauffman (‘The Gunners’) about one family over the course of 1995. It’s a beautiful character study that would make for an excellent book club choice.

24/01/2025

Excited to share our first trade review for Andrés Felipe Solano's forthcoming English-language debut, GLORIA!

"Magnetic. . . . A vivid snapshot of rosy youth and innocence lost." — Publishers Weekly

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781640096851

14/01/2025

Happy paperback publication day to GOLDENSEAL by Maria Hummel! 🌅

A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW meets MY BRILLIANT FRIEND in this novel of two estranged friends who reunite to confront each other and the devastating betrayal that tore them apart. Set against the vivid landscapes of Los Angeles and unfolding with the evanescence of a dream, GOLDENSEAL peels away the layers of an intimate female friendship to reveal a stirring and haunting story about the search for connection and the lingering echoes of lost love.

✨ "A meditation on female friendship, loneliness, and how to move on after betrayal, Goldenseal is both melancholy and escapist." — Zibby Owens

✨ "Goldenseal is a novel about agency and friendship whose questions reverberate far beyond its two protagonists and their particular time and place." — Los Angeles Times

✨ "In this taut, tense, and layered novel, Hummel deftly examines the lives of two flawed women against the backdrop of the upheavals of the twentieth century." — Booklist

10/01/2025

"Full of heart and wit, I'LL COME TO YOU investigates themes of intimacy, memory, loss, grief and reconciliation." — PureWow

January’s seven most highly anticipated releases span everything from love, marriage and family ties stretched thin by ambition to the first comprehensive user guide to GLP-1s like Ozempic.

10/01/2025

"I wonder what sorts of experiences you’ll have in your life that will hook inside you. I mean, they’ll keep revisiting you (or you’ll keep revisiting them; I’m not sure which is more true of the way thoughts happen) until the day you die."

Read the full excerpt from Rebecca Kauffman's I'LL COME TO YOU via LitHub.

https://bit.ly/4gMNO0H

March 1995 I may write some of this down in the notebook I keep, but first I’m getting organized in my head.   In school I enjoyed studying history even though I was a slow reader. I thought a…

09/01/2025

I'LL COME TO YOU is a People book of the week! They call it "intimate, wise and funny. . . A true gem about life's changing seasons." Check out the print issue when it hits stands this Friday! ✨

07/01/2025

THE LILAC PEOPLE was named one of hottest debut novels of 2025! 🔥 Add this one to your "want to read" before it pubs this April!

One of the annual delights of maintaining a serious reading habit is the thrill of discovery. Each year, a new group of first-time authors rele...

07/01/2025

Happy publication day to Rebecca Kauffman’s highly-anticipated new novel, I’LL COME TO YOU! ✨

In her fifth novel, Rebecca Kauffman investigates themes of intimacy, memory, loss, grief, and reconciliation, and the wonder, terror, frustration, fear, and magic of brushing up against the unknowable—both around us and within us.

⭐️Named a January 2025 Indie Next Pick! ⭐️

⭐️ “The joy in this book is something to admire deeply. . . . Kauffman does provide, with exquisite precision, all the toxic snits, the petty furies, the lure of nostalgia, the gnaw of needs never met. But she insists, too, on granting each character, siloed though they may be, their share of wins. The delights aren’t cheap, either: Kauffman loves them enough to bestow upon them the genuine, radiant, quiet, don’t blink kind of happiness. She shows us there is room in a novel—as in the heart—for everyone.” —

⭐️ “Rebecca Kauffman writes like a sunbeam, strong and warm on whatever lands in her path. This book only looks short—in reality, it reveals a family so richly drawn, so deep and complex, that it contains the whole world.” —