AWARDS AND HONORS: Winner of the 2020 Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, selected by Dan Chaon.
ARMCHAIR TRAVEL: Cecile Barlier's short stories range from Poland to Japan, from a rest stop in the Alps to free diving with G.I. Joe, this balance of realism and the absurd showcases the relentless pursuit of the human strugglewith all its glory, guilt, exhilaration, heartache, intimacy, and confusion.