-Trip Through Your Wires is compulsively readable.---Porter Shreve, author of Drives Like a Dream
A clue to her boyfriend's murder draws Carey back into the mystery that led to his death, forcing her to re-examine her own culpability and the self-delusion that blinded her to the dangers of his world. As she follows the clues and searches her memory, searing loss and guilt take over her life.
Sarah Layden's fiction can be found in numerous journals and anthologies. A two-time Society of Professional Journalists award winner, her nonfiction has appeared in...
-Trip Through Your Wires is compulsively readable.---Porter Shreve, author of Drives Like a Dream
The characters who inhabit Sarah Layden's short story collection are on the verge of change—if only they could see themselves and their situations with greater clarity. Caught in the midst of crises, they stumble toward the future without fully understanding their past. Layden’s deft, spare prose sketches worlds and lives with telling details, juggling disparate strands of identity and often revealing the deeper truths in unexpected moments of epiphany. A bride-to-be puts on her detective hat when her groom goes missing. A woman returns to college after escaping an abusive marriage,...
The characters who inhabit Sarah Layden's short story collection are on the verge of change—if only they could see themselves and their situations w...
