What I Didnt See, Karen Joy Fowler
What I Didnt See, Karen Joy Fowler
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What I Didn't See
And Other Stories

Author: Karen Joy Fowler

Narrator: Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Gabriel Vaughan

Unabridged: 6 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/27/2021


Synopsis

In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times bestseller Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth's younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.

The sinister and the magical are always lurking just below the surface: for a mother who invents a fairy-tale world for her son in "Halfway People"; for Edwin Booth in "Booth's Ghost," haunted by his fame as "America's Hamlet" and his brother's terrible actions; for Norah, a rebellious teenager facing torture in the World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award winner "The Pelican Bar" as she confronts Mama Strong, the sadistic boss of a rehabilitation facility; for the narrator recounting her descent in "What I Didn’t See."

With clear and insightful prose, Fowler's stories measure the human capacities for hope and despair, brutality and kindness. This collection, which includes two Nebula Award winners and stories which have been significantly rewritten since first publication, is sure to delight listeners, even as it pulls the rug out from underneath their feet.

About Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler is the author of six novels, including Booker Prize finalist and international bestseller We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Wit's End, and The Jane Austen Book Club-which spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was a New York Times Notable Book, and was adapted as a major motion picture from Sony Pictures. Her novel Sister Noon was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, and her short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Awards. Fowler and her husband, who have two grown children, live in Santa Cruz, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jan on August 31, 2022

When I bought this book from Small Beer at AWP, I thought it was a new collection, and said as much to Karen Joy Fowler a short time later. She signed my copy and she muttered about her frustration with the novel she is currently writing (her husband has reminded her that this is not new, that she s......more

Goodreads review by Alan on November 21, 2020

What I Didn't See is a short collection of short stories written by Karen Joy Fowler. That information alone was enough for me to put this book on my to-read list. However... Fowler has been publishing since 1985, and I've been avidly reading her work since at least the early 1990s. And although (ex......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on March 04, 2019

I've read several of Fowler's varied novels, so it was no surprise that the stories in this collection also range wildly in setting, genre, and focus. What they have in common is excellent writing, at least a dash of humor, and richly developed characters and worlds. About half the stories depict spe......more