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We Live in Water
A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection by Jess Walter
Subgenres:
- Short Stories,
- Dark Comedy,
- Pacific Northwest
This book is for you if you're into...
- Short stories set in offbeat corners of the Pacific Northwest
- Dark humor woven into stories of struggle and diminished dreams
- Crime fiction with a literary, satirical edge
From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter—a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and reader favorite.
These twelve stories—published over the last five years in Harper's, The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney's, Playboy, and other publications—veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless lake in the dark woods of Idaho.
This is a world of lost fathers and redemptive conmen, of meth tweakers on desperate odysseys and men committing suicide by fishing. We Live in Water is a darkly comic, heartfelt collection of stories.
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