Every family carries beginnings they did not choose and shadows they cannot escape.When Janice is sent to rural Georgia to fix up her family's old farmhouse, she expects peeling wallpaper and sagging floors, not a locked cellar, a hidden map, and whispers in the orchard. The project is meant to bring in extra income for her ailing mother, but the land has other plans.As she begins the work, Janice discovers letters from 1860 written by her ancestor, Natalie O'Connell, a Northern woman who came South and refused to stay silent. What unfolds is a haunting story of two women, separated by more than a century, yet bound by the same soil and the same dark legacy.In the summer of 1860, Natalie arrives at Peachtree Plantation full of idealism and curiosity. Beneath the graceful manners and candlelit suppers, she senses something unspoken, an unease that deepens as her cousin Billy's cruelty begins to...

Some secrets are buried deeper than memory.In the vast, unforgiving West, a man without a past follows a dangerous path. Nomad remembers nothing, yet his hands know the deadly feel of a Colt, and his pocket holds a single, strangely marked bullet – a serpent coiled around a star. It's his only clue, and his greatest liability.Whispers follow the bullet. Violent men emerge from the shadows, testing his skills, hinting at a life filled with betrayal and bloodshed. Nomad must navigate a treacherous landscape of suspicion and sudden death, using his forgotten instincts to stay alive while piecing together the puzzle of his identity before those hunting him can bury him for good.Step into a world of dust, doubt, and danger with The Bullet Without a Name – a classic Western mystery where the truth is as elusive, and potentially fatal, as a phantom gunslinger.

Gilt-edged stories that slice clean through the mundanity of modern life, from the author of Same Bed Different Dreams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize   “Ed Park is one of the funniest writers working today, and among the most humane.”—Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!   In “Machine City” a college student’s chance role in a friend’s movie blurs the line between his character and his true self. (Is he a robot?) In “Slide to Unlock” a man comes to terms with his life via the passwords he struggles to remember in extremis. (What’s his mom’s name backward?) And in “Weird Menace” a director and faded movie star gab about science fiction, bad costume choices, and lost loves on a commentary track for a B-film from the ’80s that neither remembers all that well.   In Ed Park’s utterly original collection, An Oral History of Atlantis, characters bemoan their fleeting youth, focus on their breathing, meet cute, break up, write book reviews, translate ancient glyphs, bid on stuff online, whale watch, and once in a while find solace in the sublime. Throughout, Park deploys his trademark wit to create a world both strikingly recognizable and delightfully other. Spanning a quarter century, these sixteen stories tell the absurd truth about our lives. They capture the moment when the present becomes the past—and are proof positive that Ed Park is one of the most imaginative and insightful writers working today.