Parts per Million
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Julia Stoops- Parts per Million was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, established by Barbara Kingsolver
- Activist fiction is popular with the media, booksellers, and readers in the wake of Trump’s election
- Many indie booksellers have featured politically relevant titles on endcaps and tables; Parts per Million is set in 2002 and features anti-war protests and weapons contract fraud at the start of the Iraq war
- Artist Gabriel Liston will create full-page illustrations for each of the parts of the book, plus a half-page epilogue image. His work has been featured in titles by Akashic, Graywolf, and others, including Justin Hocking’s award-winning memoir The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld.
- Julia Stoops’s international background should help increase the range of the title.
- Stranger-comes-to-town plot turns into a page-turning thriller, offering a quick pace and relationship intrigue layered with the political updates.
- Portland, Oregon, setting will maximize interest from Northwest booksellers and readers—one of Forest Avenue’s strongest bases
- American media continues to focus on Portland, in terms of feature stories and cultural updates, which should help increase visibility of a locally-set title
- Parts per Million is part thriller, part political, featuring three unlikely roommates, so the relationships are central to the story as with any good literary fiction
- Kickstarter successfully raised more than $5,000 for illustrations
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