Poppy Leathers has two work lives. The job everyone knows she manager to an art influencer extraordinaire. The other assistant to Brooklyn' s premier artisanal hitman. Two different worlds, all the same crap. Undervalued and constantly taken for granted, Poppy reaches her breaking point when her art boss decides he' s desperate to adopt a baby— by any means necessary— and her hitman boss has fallen into an ennui that has left him ready to retire— a major health hazard for anyone with her institutional knowledge. What' s a burned-out, bright-eyed sociopath to do but lock in and grind her way further up the ladder? Taking advantage of her bosses' lack of common sense and judgement, Poppy begins to politick her way into a solution that will push her into the stratosphere of the hipster crime world— but ambition can only get her so far. When a charismatic Coney Island cheesemonger named Amity careens into the middle of her schemes, Poppy Leathers will need to decide what is truly important… before she finds herself on the wrong side of the gun. A chaotic journey into a hyper-stylized Brooklyn crime world, POP! is a fable for the overworked and overambitious.

Poppy Leathers has two work lives. The job everyone knows she manager to an art influencer extraordinaire. The other assistant to Brooklyn' s premier artisanal hitman. Two different worlds, all the same crap. Undervalued and constantly taken for granted, Poppy reaches her breaking point when her art boss decides he' s desperate to adopt a baby— by any means necessary— and her hitman boss has fallen into an ennui that has left him ready to retire— a major health hazard for anyone with her institutional knowledge. What' s a burned-out, bright-eyed sociopath to do but lock in and grind her way further up the ladder? Taking advantage of her bosses' lack of common sense and judgement, Poppy begins to politick her way into a solution that will push her into the stratosphere of the hipster crime world— but ambition can only get her so far. When a charismatic Coney Island cheesemonger named Amity careens into the middle of her schemes, Poppy Leathers will need to decide what is truly important… before she finds herself on the wrong side of the gun. A chaotic journey into a hyper-stylized Brooklyn crime world, POP! is a fable for the overworked and overambitious.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Trust turns to the future with a novel that examines the place of technology in the American imaginationCenturies from now, at the dawn of a historical epoch filled with both uncertainty and promise, an orphan is adrift in a city on the brink of a great transformation. The state has been dismantled, and humans are reinventing social bonds and learning new ways to coexist with nature. Following a childhood defined by loss, survival, and found family, the orphan grows up to become a “pincher,” someone who steals electricity from the grid to sell it on the black market. It’s a high-risk life, one that brings her into a rich downtown art and music scene where she powers underground concerts. It also leads her to a colossal scientific invention that could be either a contraption devised by a deranged mind or a machine that will change the very fabric of reality.After rewriting America’s past with his two previous novels, Hernan Diaz now gives us a glimpse into the future. Ply questions the place of technology in the American experiment with a plot that grabs both heart and mind. It is a novel of ideas built from a story of people. Combining Dickensian odyssey, family drama, and scientific thriller, Ply poignantly charts the tenuous boundaries of selfhood and the distance that inevitably stands between us and those we love.