"Five Tuesdays in Winter moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It
filled up every chamber of my heart. I loved this book." --Ann
Patchett
By the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Writers
& Lovers and Euphoria comes a masterful new collection of short
stories
Lily King, one of the most "brilliant" (New York Times Book Review),
"wildly talented" (Chicago Tribune), and treasured authors of
contemporary fiction, returns after her recent bestselling novels with
Five Tuesdays in Winter, her first book of short fiction.
Told in the intimate voices of complex, endearing characters, Five
Tuesdays in Winter intriguingly subverts expectations as it explores
desire, loss, jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at
all costs. A reclusive bookseller begins to feel the discomfort of love
again. Two college roommates have a devastating middle-aged reunion. A
proud old man rages powerlessly in his granddaughter's hospital room. A
writer receives a visit from all the men who have tried to suppress her
voice.
Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, this
wide-ranging collection of ten selected stories by one of our most
accomplished chroniclers of the human heart is an exciting addition to
Lily King's oeuvre of acclaimed fiction.
