they’re sure as hell not leaving without something
or any car ride to a dinner party with a little something wonderful and sweet
and the incalculable wages of war
while also marking the triumphant return of an essential voice in American letters
Growing increasingly exasperated with China’s stifling political climate
Wednesday's Child: Stories Short Stories Anthologies they’re sure as hell notFinalist for the Story Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Esquire, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews A new collectionabout loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary lifeby the award winning, and inimitable, author of The Book of Goose. A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone shes lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her