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A New York Times Bestseller In a young mother resting by the side of the road in Central California is photographed by a woman documenting the migrant laborers search for work producing the most iconic image of the Great Depression In luminous exquisitely rendered prose Marisa Silver creates an extraordinary tale of three vibrant characters from a moment captured in history and reminds us that it only scratched the surface of a life
About the Author
Marisa is the author of the novel LITTLE NOTHING, published in September, 2016. Her other novels include MARY COIN, a New York Times Bestseller and winner of the Southern California Independent Bookseller's Award. THE GOD OF WAR, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction, and NO DIRECTION HOME. Her first collection of short stories, BABE IN PARADISE, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. When her second collection, ALONE WITH YOU, was published, The New York Times called her "one of California's most celebrated contemporary writers." Silver made her fiction debut in The New Yorker when she was featured in that magazine's first "Debut Fiction" issue. Her fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Prize Stories, as well as other anthologies.
