Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction, these stories present quirky takes on contemporary life in which animals, not always large, lurk around the edges. "Ms. Brenner's achievement in these ironic, understanding tales is making sure that even the small losses her characters suffer do not fail to move us".--"New York Times Book Review".
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction, these stories present quirky takes on contemporary life in which animals, not always large, l...
The eleven stories in Wendy Brenner's debut story collection concern people who are alone or feel themselves to be alone: survivors negotiating between logic and faith who look for mysterious messages and connections in everyday life, those sudden transformations and small miracles that occur in mundane, even absurd settings.
Brenner's stories range in setting from the rural and southern (a rotating country music bar, a dog track/jai alai compound, a grocery store, a natural cold springs sinkhole) to the urban and high-tech (absurdly bureaucratic companies and academic departments and a...
The eleven stories in Wendy Brenner's debut story collection concern people who are alone or feel themselves to be alone: survivors negotiating bet...
