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The blue-capped man who operates the crane is so attached to the machine that he never leaves it in war or in peace.

Fiction. In this brilliantly rendered, LA Times Book Prize nominated debut collection (as well as Longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award), Sara Lippmann draws the reader into the intimate lives of characters seeking...

"Wise and funny . . . [A] near-perfect collection." --Entertainment Weekly Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich...

"Beautiful, strange, and compulsively readable stories from an already-celebrated young writer"--