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american fiction
Author_Camille Bordas
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george saunders
lorrie moore
percival everett
prize winning author
short story collection
witty stories
Product details
- ISBN 9781805220145
- Weight: 259g
- Dimensions: 126 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'One of the best new collections I've read in a long time' TELEGRAPH 5-STAR REVIEW
'Camille Bordas is an invaluable new voice' GEORGE SAUNDERS
A young woman takes stock following a burglary. A teenager becomes obsessed with the obituaries in a weekly magazine. Grandchildren mourn the grandparents who loved them and the ones who didn't. Painters and almost-painters try to distinguish Good Art from Bad Art. People grapple with life-altering illness, unrequited love and promises they have every intention of keeping. Some win the lottery. Some don't.
In this prismatic new collection, Camille Bordas's complex, wry, sometimes dark and always self-aware stories open a window onto the truths and misapprehensions of our shared, flawed humanity.
Camille Bordas is the author of The Material, How to Behave in a Crowd and two prize-winning French novels. Her short stories regularly appear in the New Yorker. Born in France, raised in Mexico City and Paris, she currently lives in Chicago.
