We Live in Water - by Jess Walter (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The first collection of short fiction from "New York Times"-bestselling author Walter--a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him one of America's most talked-about writers<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019</strong><strong><br/></strong></p><p><strong>From the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Beautiful Ruins</em>, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter--a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and reader favorite</strong></p><p>These twelve stories--published over the last five years in Harper's, The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney's, Playboy, and other publications--veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless lake in the dark woods of Idaho. This is a world of lost fathers and redemptive conmen, of meth tweakers on desperate odysseys and men committing suicide by fishing.</p><p><em>We Live in Water</em> is a darkly comic, heartfelt collection of stories from a "ridiculously talented writer" (<em>New York Times</em>), "one of the freshest voices in American literature" (<em>Dallas Morning News</em>).<br/></p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p><em>We Live in Water</em>, the first collection of short fiction from <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Jess Walter, is a suite of diverse, often comic stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made him one of our most talked-about writers. In Thief, a blue-collar worker turns unlikely detective to find out which of his kids is stealing from the family vacation fund. In We Live in Water, a lawyer returns to a corrupt North Idaho town to find the father who disappeared thirty years earlier. In Anything Helps, a homeless man has to go to cardboard to raise enough money to buy his son the new Harry Potter book. In Virgo, a local newspaper editor tries to get back at his superstitious ex-girlfriend by screwing with her horoscope. And the collection's final story transforms slyly from a portrait of Walter's hometown into a moving contemplation of our times. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[Walter] can mine the least scintilla of humor and wit from his characters' broken lives--people whose dreams will surely not come true but who somehow keep trying."--<b><i>Shelf Awareness</i></b><br><br>"Brims with humanity. <b>A-</b>"--<b><i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b><br><br>"Jess Walter, who is revered for his novels, shows a gritty side in these clear-cut stories... Each word is perfectly placed...[Walter] brings his first story collection to a smashing end."--<b><i>Daily Beast</i></b><br><br>"Mr. Walter brings (his) outlook to short-story writing easily, and with a vengeance... His most bleakly funny, hard-edge book in years."--<b>Janet Maslin, <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br>"This badass collection aligns itself... with Walter's gritty, bighearted novels."--<b><i>Esquire</b></i><br><br>"This debut story collection from Walter proves he's as skilled at satire and class commentary in the short form as in his novels...A witty and sobering snapshot of recession-era America."--<b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i>, starred review </b><br><br>"Walter (<i>Beautiful Ruins</i>) writes-beautifully. . . . Darkly funny, sneakily sad, these stories are very, very good. The algorithm for this debut collection is straightforward: if you like to read, you'll like this book."--<b><i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review</b><br><br>"Walter is a bighearted man who excels at writing about other bighearted, if broken, men. That generosity of spirit coupled with Walter's seeming inability to look away from the messy bits, elevates these stories from dirges to symphonies."--<b><i>New York Times Book Review</b></i><br><br>"Walter's got a great ear and a genius for sympathy with America's new dispossessed."--<b>NPR's All Things Considered</b><br><br>"Wildly entertaining and thought-provoking fiction from a prodigiously talented writer."--<b>Booklist</b><br>
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