In these eleven powerful stories, thrilling desire and melancholic yearning animate women’s lives, from the brink of adulthood to the labyrinthine path between twenty and thirty, to middle age, when certain possibilities quietly elapse. More about this book >

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  Anthony Doerr

  

  Anthony Doerr is the author of All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Alex Award, and a Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector; the novel About Grace; and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five PEN/O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and The Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons. (Photo credit: Ulf Andersen)