Description
In this long-awaited collection, Joy Williams gathers 46 stories that move with a bleak, flat clarity—desolate, bizarre, and quietly relentless. Across scenes of grief, domestic life, and the uneasy edges of community, ordinary rituals curdle into menace as characters confront loss, inheritance, and the strange privileges that shape who gets to belong and who is left exposed. One woman’s son has died, and his prep school classmates arrive to grieve—only for the night to turn confrontational, revealing how mourning can become a kind of pressure, performance, and threat. With Williams’s distinctive, unsparing style and her gift for turning the smallest details into dread, these stories explore themes of power, vulnerability, and the unsettling ways the world “visits” us—then refuses to leave.
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paperback
Vintage
Published Sep 8, 2015
511 pages
ISBN: 9781101874905
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First Published
2015
Language
eng
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