Effective in May, Ingram's Publishers Group West will sell and distribute Restless Books in the U.S., Canada, and international territories.
Founded in 2013, Restless Books, Brooklyn, N.Y., is a nonprofit independent publisher of international fiction and nonfiction for adults and young readers. Its mission is "championing essential voices from around the world whose stories speak to us across linguistic and cultural borders. We seek extraordinary international literature for adults and young readers that feeds our restlessness: our hunger for new perspectives, passion for other cultures and languages, and eagerness to explore beyond the confines of the familiar."
Among Restless Books titles are the Italian satire I Am God; Cuban science-fiction by Yoss, the crónicas of Peruvian author Gabriela Wiener; the first novel from Madagascar to be translated into English, Naivo's Beyond the Rice Fields; young-reader debut books by Rivka Galchen and Juan Villoro; the Restless Classics series, including Robinson Crusoe introduced by Jamaica Kincaid and Virginia Woolf's Night and Day introduced by Lauren Groff; and the novels of cult film guru Alejandro Jodorowsky.