William Lychack’s first novel THE WASP EATER, in which a ten-year-old boy attempts to reunite his estranged parents (praised by writer Charles Baxter as “one of the best narratives I have ever read about those who are unforgiven, and the effect of this refusal on a child, the eyes and ears of the family”), to Janet Silver and Heidi Pitlor at Houghton Mifflin, in a two book deal that includes a collection of stories, for six figures, by Marly Rusoff (NA).
Translation rights: Lisa Queen at IMG, German rights: Jacqueline Le Donna.