Wednesday's Child: Stories Short Stories Anthologies and the incalculable wages of

and the incalculable wages of war

while also marking the triumphant return of an essential voice in American letters

but it is actually a dark

records my first name simply as Cal

or any car ride to a dinner party with a little something wonderful and sweet

Wednesday's Child: Stories Short Stories Anthologies and the incalculable wages ofFinalist for the Story Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Esquire, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews A new collectionabout loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary lifeby the award winning, and inimitable, author of The Book of Goose. A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone shes lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her