GRABBERS

A Selection of First Sentences From New Books

I sat at my desk and stared at a calendar with a bunch of dancing tamales on it and played with a little piece of paper and thought about the fact that I was twenty-six and still a virgin. “Losing It,” a novel, now in paperback, by Emma Rathbone Tonight a man found Dad’s pants in a tree lit with Christmas lights.

“Goodbye, Vitamin,” a novel by Rachel Khong At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring.

“Cold Mountain,” a novel, reprinted in a 20th anniversary edition, by Charles Frazier