Sad Grownups
Hardcover NA pages English Jul 23, 2024
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For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world. Winner of the 2025 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story CollectionA neighborhood of picturesque content-creation houses perched on too-green lawns in a California desert; a meandering stampede of unleashed dogs on the streets of San Francisco; a skein of snow geese alighting in a state park in Missouri; an uncanny fundraising auction at an upscale suburban-DC prep school. Inhabiting these worlds of disconnection and dislocation are the "sad grownups" a middle-aged queer couple arguing over whether to have children, a college professor dying from cancer, two recent high school graduates plotting a robbery, a sixty-year-old counselor at a boys' summer camp sheltering herself from the realities of life-all connected more closely to the landscapes around them than to other people, searching fervently for liberation, understanding, and even happiness, wherever and however they might be found.
- Author:
- Adams Media
- Publisher:
- Adams Media
- Publication Date:
- Jul 23, 2024
- Number of pages:
- NA pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1507223277
- ISBN-13:
- 9781507223277