You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories Saturday, August 1 2009.

• In his bestselling and lavishly praised first book of stories, Adam Haslett explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. The impact is at once harrowing and thrilling. An elderly inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. A bereaved boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a long-time resident of a psychiatric hospital, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn teenaged volunteer. Told with Chekhovian restraint and compassion, and conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, You Are Not a Stranger Here is a triumph of storytelling.

Shelfari edited the contributors of You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Adam Haslett: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories Thursday, July 16 2009.

• TWO THINGS TO get straight from the beginning: I hate doctors and have never joined a support group in my life.