The Pelican Child: Stories

by Joy Williams

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A razor-sharp new collection of stories of visionary childhood misfits and struggling adult dreamers from this legendary writer of “perfectly indescribable fiction . . . To read Williams is to look into the abyss” (The Atlantic)

“Night was best, for, as everyone knows, but does not tell, the sobbing of the earth is most audible at night.” “Men are but unconscious machines and they perform their cruelties so effortlessly.” “Caring was a power she’d once possessed but had given up freely.” The sentences of Joy Williams are like no other—the coiled wit, the sense of a confused and ruined...Read more
  • ISBN10 0525657584
  • ISBN13 9780525657583
  • Publish Date 18 November 2025
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Alfred A. Knopf