"A unique, powerful new voice full of passion."--Etgar Keret, author The Nimrod Flipout This audacious re-imagining of The Odyssey finds Penny home alone while Payne, a modern-day Odysseus, wages wars of conquest. Angrily pining for Payne, Penny is oblivious to even the most eyebrow-raising exploits of the ne're-do-wells who court her--until a mysterious visitor appears and the suitors' precarious pecking order falls violently to pieces. Brutal, playful, sexy, and subversive, The Suitors is a classic of its own kind. "Ehrenreich blends Tom Robbins' sly humor with Steve Erickson's bubbling sense of the subconscious and Voltaire's irreverent twists of plot."-- Los Angeles Times "Compelling . Ehrenreich evokes a sense of decay and destruction, of a decadent empire in collapse--a hybrid of antiquity and our own contemporary America."-- Seattle Weekly "Ehrenreich writes with an ease and pure line-by-line skill that's rare.

"-- New York Times Ben Ehrenreich is a journalist whose writing has appeared in L.A. Weekly , the Village Voice , the Los Angeles Times , the New York Times Book Review , and many other publications. He lives in Los Angeles.