This collection of stories presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art founder under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and a high school student whose wish to escape the strictures of her immigrant family lead her to a drastic decision that upends the life of a middle-aged British physicist.
- ISBN10 1250192722
- ISBN13 9781250192721
- Publish Date 2 October 2018 (first published 3 October 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Picador USA
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 304
- Language English