{"product_id":"certain-american-states-stories-paperback","title":"Certain American States: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCatherine Lacey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Short Story Collections of 2018. Named a Summer Read by \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair, The Guardian, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNylon, Bustle \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Literary Hub. \u003c\/i\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2018.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Young American novelists, Catherine Lacey, the Whiting Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Answers\u003c\/i\u003e, showcases her literary style in short fiction with \u003ci\u003eCertain American States\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of stories about ordinary people seeking--and failing to find--the extraordinary in their lives.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCatherine Lacey brings her narrative mastery to \u003ci\u003eCertain American States\u003c\/i\u003e, her first collection of short stories. As with her acclaimed novels \u003ci\u003eNobody Is Ever Missing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Answers\u003c\/i\u003e, she gives life to a group of subtly complex, instantly memorable characters whose searches for love, struggles with grief, and tentative journeys into the minutiae of the human condition are simultaneously gripping and devastating. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe characters in \u003ci\u003eCertain American States\u003c\/i\u003e are continually coming to terms with their place in the world, and how to adapt to that place, before change inevitably returns. A woman leaves her dead husband's clothing on the street, only for it to reappear on the body of a stranger; a man reads his ex-wife's short story and neurotically contemplates whether it is about him; a young woman whose Texan mother insists on moving to New York City with her has her daily attempts to get over a family tragedy interrupted by a mute stranger showing her incoherent messages on his phone. These are stories of breakups, abandonment, and strained family ties; dead brothers and distant surrogate fathers; loneliness, happenstance, starting over, and learning to let go. Lacey's elegiac and inspired prose is at its full power in this collection, further establishing her as one of the singular literary voices of her generation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Lacey \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of\u003ci\u003e Nobody Is Ever Missing\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of a 2016 Whiting Award and a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, and \u003ci\u003eThe Answers\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2017, she was named one of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's Best of Young American Novelists. Her essays and fiction have been published widely and translated into Italian, French, Dutch, Spanish, and German. She was born in Mississippi and is based in Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8 x 4.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43617367556185,"sku":"9781250214973","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6465\/9545\/files\/0745U7ShhB9781250214973.webp?v=1783691636","url":"https:\/\/warrenssanctuaryofthemind.myshopify.com\/fr\/products\/certain-american-states-stories-paperback","provider":"Warren's sanctuary of the mind","version":"1.0","type":"link"}