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One of Granta's Best Young American novelists, Catherine Lacey, the Whiting Award-winning author of The Answers, showcases her literary style in short fiction with Certain American States, a collection of stories about ordinary people seeking -- and failing to find -- the extraordinary in their lives.Catherine Lacey brings her narrative mastery to Certain American States, her first collection of short stories. As with her acclaimed novels Nobody Is Ever Missing and The Answers, she gives life to a group of subtly complex, instantly memorable characters whose searches for love, struggles with grief, and tentative journeys into the minutiae of the human condition are simultaneously gripping and devastating. The characters in Certain American States are continually coming to terms with their place in the world, and how to adapt to that place, before change inevitably returns.
About the Author
Catherine Lacey is the author of three novels-- Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, and Pew. She has published fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, Playboy, and in her collection Certain American States. The recipient of a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim fellowship, she was also named one of Granta Magazine's Best of Young American Novelists in 2017. Born in Mississippi, she is now based in Chicago.
