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    612-822-4611

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Company: Stories

Company: Stories

Sanders, Shannon

Hardcover

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $27.00

ISBN10: 1644452510
ISBN13: 9781644452516
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: Oct 3 2023
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
"If you're like me and you love a sprawling, multigenerational-family-lore sort of saga, then you absolutely have to read Company. This collection of stories is so cleverly composed, letting you into one family's history bit by bit and with impeccable pacing. It's witty and perceptive and just an incredible read." --Rachel
 

WINNER OF THE 2023 LOS ANGELES TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING

A richly detailed, brilliantly woven debut collection about the lives and lore of one Black family, named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2023

Shannon Sanders's sparkling debut brings us into the company of the Collins family and their acquaintances as they meet, bicker, compete, celebrate, worry, keep and reveal secrets, build lives and careers, and endure. Moving from Atlantic City to New York to DC, from the 1960s to the 2000s, from law students to drag performers to violinists to matriarchs, Company tells a multifaceted, multigenerational saga in thirteen stories.

Each piece includes a moment when a guest arrives at someone's home. In The Good, Good Men, two brothers reunite to oust a deadbeat boyfriend from their mother's house. In The Everest Society, the brothers' sister anxiously prepares for a home visit from a social worker before adopting a child. In Birds of Paradise, their aunt, newly promoted to university provost, navigates a minefield of microaggressions at her own welcome party. And in the haunting title story, the provost's sister finds her solitary life disrupted when her late sister's daughter comes calling.

These are stories about intimacy, societal and familial obligations, and the ways inheritances shape our fates. Buoyant, somber, sharp, and affectionate, this collection announces a remarkable new voice in fiction.

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