Publish Date |
June 01, 2021 |
Category |
Fiction / Short Stories Fiction / Family Life |
Price |
$23.00 |
ISBN: 9781476799445
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: Scribner
Published: June 01, 2021
Praise for She Was Like That:
"A fascinatingly integrated story collection...Mother love brings strange moments of what can only be called grace, moments Walbert captures with an unusual combination of restraint and rhapsody." —Claire Dederer, The New York Times Book Review
“In this evocative collection, the love of women for their children can provide salvation or a trap. Or both, at the same time. Walbert captures maternal love and its moments of grace with an unusual combination of restraint and rhapsody.”—The New York Times, Editors’ Choice
"A striking, often melancholy collection [that] grapples with the joys and anxieties of motherhood."—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"An intense look at women searching — often fruitlessly — for companionship, while striving to hold on to their dreams."—Cory Oldweiler, AM New York
“This is a piercing, intimate, and exquisite collection.”—Publishers Weekly
"Tales of spare, unflinching beauty show how love and loneliness can occupy a heart together.” —Kirkus Reviews
“I loved these stories, wide-open, varied, generous, warm, funny.”—Tessa Hadley, author of Late in the Day
“Kate Walbert is inarguably one of our foremost chroniclers of the existential dilemma of being not just a woman, but a human. With astonishing precision, alive and alert to the complications embedded in even the simplest exchange, Walbert slips into the fissures and fault lines of her utterly compelling characters doing the best of what a writer can do: she makes the familiar strange, and in doing so, reveals the glorious complexity of a world we only think we know.”—Marisa Silver, author of Mary Coin