Maggie Brown & Others

✍ Scribed by Peter Orner

• Book ID: 110978968
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 325 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780316516112
• ASIN: B07K6GVCBS

✦ Synopsis

**In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, each one "a marvel of concision and compassion" (Washington Post), a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and "master of his form" (New York Times) takes the short story to new heights.**Through forty-four compressed gems, Peter Orner, a writer who "doesn't simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls" (NYT Book Review), chronicles people whose lives are at inflection points, gripping us with a series of defining moments.
Whether it's a first date that turns into a late-night road trip to a séance in an abandoned airplane hangar, or a family's memories of the painful mystery surrounding a neglected uncle's demise, Orner reveals how our fleeting decisions between kindness and abandonment chase us across time. These stories are anchored by a poignant novella that delivers not only the joys and travails of a forty-year marriage, but an entire era in a working-class New England city. Bristling with the crackling energy of life itself, Maggie Brown & Others marks the most sustained achievement to date for "a master of his form" (New York Times).- A New York Times Notable Book

• A Chicago Tribune Notable Book
• An Oprah Magazine Best Book of 2019
• Kirkus Reviews Best Short Fiction of 2019
• Longlisted for the Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize