Coming in 2026
the ghosts of okuma
“Trippy, hip, glorious.”
Joy Williams
"Wieland’s haunted teen-aged lovers are both wildly funny and pierced by yearnings everyone in our crumbling world will recognize.”
Andrea Barrett
“This novel is a wild ride, and it leaves you breathless."
Charles Baxter
“If you have ever been in love, Mitch Wieland’s funny, open-hearted story of teenage love set against mysterious loss will lasso your spirit and refuse to let go. The Ghosts of Okuma is also the story of a quest, a brother’s devotion and a son’s cherished duty, but it is mainly a poem to the kind of innocent passion life only offers once. Wyatt is the unforgettable boy everyone wanted to find. I sat down to skim a few pages and woke up five hours later, as if from a dream, having read the whole thing at a single go. To turn away from this story of hope and grief and adventure, by one of our most talented writers, you would have to have a heart of stone.”
Jacquelyn Mitchard
“The novel's quirky heroine is both tour guide to an underside of Tokyo and a savant capable of unbraiding human emotion. Tragic and empowering, The Ghosts of Okuma delivers on multiple levels, as rare as a perfectly executed snow angel following a winter dusting.”
Ridley Pearson
PRAISE FOR WILLY SLATER’S LANE
“Through the brevity born of perfectly chosen words, and through the pervasive intimations of hope, Wieland transforms this story of lives on the edge of ordinary into a psalm.”
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Transcendent portrait . . . spellbinding.”
Booklist (starred review)
“Immensely moving.”
The New York Times Book Review
PRAISE FOR GOD’S DOGS
“Mitch Wieland’s stories are like his characters: wind-swept, isolated, trembling with longing.”
Anthony Doerr
“Mitch Wieland’s stories have great breadth, powerful sympathies, and a renewing comprehension of our human selves which we only find in the best literature.”
Richard Ford
“Mitch Wieland, one of our country’s best magazine editors, shows where he gets his know-how—he’s a keen creator of fine stories, and makes characters out of sentences all of us should envy.”
Alan Cheuse