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Tells the tale of a family: the pain of loss and the importance of the love of friends in the midst of turmoil

Table of Contents

Alice in Dairyland

Damage

Honors

A Story Set in Germany

Beasts

New Rooms

Scarce

Mary

Family Portrait

Night Dogs

About the Author

Jesse Lee Kercheval is Sally Mead Hands Bascom Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and director of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She is the author of seven books and two chapbooks. Her first story collection, The Dogeater, won the Associated Writing Programs Award in Short Fiction, and her memoir, Space, won the Alex Award from the American Library Association.

Reviews

"Jesse Lee Kercheval performs some much-needed surgery on the human heart in this stunning new collection of stories by an author whose wry and touching perceptions make her one of the foremost chroniclers of our times."--Jonis Agee, author of the novel River wives "Daily life has never seemed more remarkable, or more fraught, or more ultimately plenteous than in these seductively readable Alice Stories." Erin McGraw, author of the story collection The good wife "By turns hilarious and devastating, The Alice Stories form a tender and poetic chronicle of one woman's journey through time, love, motherhood." Anthony Doerr, author of the novel About Grace "In these lucid, keenly intelligent stories, Jesse Lee Kercheval's witty, tender, and bewildered Alice navigates the unpredictable landscape of adulthood--its irreplaceable gifts and stunning losses--and illuminates what it means to love." Nancy Reisman, author of the novel The first desire