A Better Class of People

*Virtual launch with Matt Bell on April 6 hosted by Community Bookstore; in-person events at other New York indies, as possible *Established author with strong connections and allies throughout the literary community *Review, feature, and interview outreach to Poets & Writers, Newsday, the New York Times, the New Yorker, The Writer’s Chronicle, Kirkus Reviews, Publisher’s Weekly, The Nervous Breakdown, LitHUB, and The Sun *Extensive outreach to independent booksellers, with emphasis on select NYC independents (Greenlight Bookstore, The Center for Fiction, Unnameable Books, Word, McNally Jackson) *National galley mailing *Egalleys available on Edelweiss *Co-op budget available

A brilliant novel-in-stories from award-winning author Robert Lopez In an uncanny, distorted version of New York City, a man rides the subway through the chaos of an ordinary commute. He may have a gun in his pocket. He may be looking for someone—a woman named Esperanza. Between stops, we shuttle back and forth through time and see a man who stands in traffic, the same man seizing and shuddering on a sidewalk, an institution where the man is housed with other undesirables (or troublemakers?), a neighborhood where all the residents have forgotten their names. Over everything looms the specter of a nameless menace, a pervasive sense that something—more than just a ride—is coming to an end. With Robert Lopez’s signature innovation, A Better Class of People delivers a network of stories interconnected and careening like subway tunnels through the realities of modern America: immigration, gun violence, police brutality, sexual harassment, climate change, and the point of fracture at which we find ourselves, where reality and perception are indistinguishable.