Everything Inside: Stories

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x1x8. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Spine ends faintly pushed, otherwise an exceptional copy. 2019 Hard Cover. ix, 223 pp. A collection of eight short stories by the award-winning author of Breath, Eyes, Memory. Includes: Dosas; In the Old Days; The Port-au-Prince Marriage Special; The Gift; Hot-Air Balloons; Sunrise, Sunset; Seven Stories; Without Inspection. "From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love. Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean and beyond, Everything Inside is at once wide in scope and intimate, as it explores the forces that pull us together, or drive us apart, sometimes in the same searing instant. In these eight powerful, emotionally absorbing stories, a romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends; a marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with irreparable consequences; a young woman holds on to an impossible dream even as she fights for her survival; two lovers reunite after unimaginable tragedy, both for their country and in their lives; a baby's christening brings three generations of a family to a precarious dance between old and new; a man falls to his death in slow motion, reliving the defining moments of the life he is about to lose. This is the indelible work of a keen observer of the human heart--a master at her best.