A small literary publisher named for the mortise-and-tenon joint — the join that bears the weight and is never seen.
The first title
The Hearing Stone
On the first voyage around Africa, a Phoenician sailor carries a stone his mother pressed on him at the dock — a consecrated thing said to give back whatever is spoken into it, in the speaker’s own voice. But it keeps only what a man can bring himself to say aloud, and there is one thing he will not say.
A spare, hypnotic debut about the sea, the weight of an unspoken thing, and what survives of a life once the words are gone.
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Tenon Press publishes literary fiction with a preference for the spare, the patient, and the made-to-last — books attentive to work, to objects, and to the things people carry. We keep a deliberately small list: a few titles, each given full attention.
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