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From the prizewinning, debut fiction author: an exhilarating virtuosic story collection about women navigating the wilds of male-dominated Alaskan society.Set in Newman's home state of Alaska, Nobody Gets Out Alive is a collection of dazzling, courageous stories about women struggling to survive not just grizzly bears and charging moose but the raw, exhausting legacy of their marriages and families. In "Howl Palace" - winner of The Paris Review's Terry Southern Prize, a Best American Short Story, and Pushcart Prize selection - an aging widow struggles with a rogue hunting dog and the memories of her five ex-husbands while selling her house after bankruptcy. In the title story, "Nobody Gets Out Alive," newly married Katrina visits her hometown of Anchorage and blows up her own wedding reception by flirting with the host and running off with an enormous mastodon tusk.
About the Author
Leigh Newman's memoir Still Points North is forthcoming from Dial Press in spring 2013. She is the Deputy Editor of Oprah. com where she writes about books, life, happiness, survival, and:on rare, lucky days:food. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in One Story, Tin House, The New York Times Modern Love and City sections, Fiction, New York Tyrant, O The Oprah Magazine, Oprah. com, Condà Nast Brides, Condà Nast Concierge, Travel Holiday, Ski, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, and Bookforum. Her work has been anthologized in Crown's The Collected Traveler book seriess and My Parents Were Awesome (Villard, 2011) . She was the co-editor for One Ring Zero's The Recipe Project (Black Balloon, 2011) and currently serves as an editor-at-large for the indie press Black Balloon Publishing.
