Company: Stories
A debut collection that follows the Collins family and their circle across decades and cities, tracing work, secrets, celebrations, and the lives they build.
Work Information
A debut collection that follows the Collins family and their circle across decades and cities, tracing work, secrets, ce…
A richly detailed, brilliantly woven debut collection about the lives and lore of one Black family Shannon Sanders’s sparkling debut brings us into the company of the Collins family and their acquaintances as they meet, bicker, compete, celebrate, worry, keep and reveal secrets, build lives and careers, and endure. Moving from Atlantic City to New York to DC, from the 1960s to the 2000s, from law students to drag performers to violinists to matriarchs, Company tells a multifaceted, multigenerational saga in thirteen stories. Each piece in Company includes a moment when a guest arrives at someone’s home. In “The Good, Good Men,” two brothers reunite to oust a “deadbeat” boyfriend from their mother’s house. In “The Everest Society,” the brothers’ sister anxiously prepares for a home visit from a social worker before adopting a child. In “Birds of Paradise,” their aunt, newly promoted to university provost, navigates a minefield of microaggressions at her own welcome party. And in the haunting title story, the provost’s sister finds her solitary life disrupted when her late sister’s daughter comes calling. These are stories about intimacy, societal and familial obligations, and the ways inheritances shape our fates. Buoyant, somber, sharp, and affectionate, this collection announces a remarkable new voice in fiction.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Graywolf Pr
- Published
- 2023-10-03
- Pages
- 194 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16 x 1.91 x 23.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781644452516
- ISBN-10
- 1644452510
- Price
- 4763 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Short Stories/Anthologies
WINNER OF THE 2023 LOS ANGELES TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING A richly detailed, brilliantly woven debut collection about the lives and lore of one Black family, named one of Publishers Weekly ’s Best Books of 2023 Shannon Sanders’s sparkling debut brings us into the company of the Collins family and their acquaintances as they meet, bicker, compete, celebrate, worry, keep and reveal secrets, build lives and careers, and endure. Moving from Atlantic City to New York to DC, from the 1960s to the 2000s, from law students to drag performers to violinists to matriarchs, Company tells a multifaceted, multigenerational saga in thirteen stories. Each piece includes a moment when a guest arrives at someone’s home. In “The Good, Good Men,” two brothers reunite to oust a “deadbeat” boyfriend from their mother’s house. In “The Everest Society,” the brothers’ sister anxiously prepares for a home visit from a social worker before adopting a child. In “Birds of Paradise,” their aunt, newly promoted to university provost, navigates a minefield of microaggressions at her own welcome party. And in the haunting title story, the provost’s sister finds her solitary life disrupted when her late sister’s daughter comes calling. These are stories about intimacy, societal and familial obligations, and the ways inheritances shape our fates. Buoyant, somber, sharp, and affectionate, this collection announces a remarkable new voice in fiction.
Shannon Sanders lives and works near Washington, DC. Her fiction has appeared in One Story , Electric Literature , Joyland, TriQuarterly , and elsewhere, and was a 2020 winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.
Reviews
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This book is seriously beautifully written. The way the stories weave together to reveal a little bit more insight of the family is so engaging. This is the best book I’ve read in years!
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Shannon Sanders does an amazing job of crafting rich characters and depths of relationships. This is beautifully crafted and expertly written. Cant believe this is her debut and can’t wait for more!!
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Our book club enjoyed reading the book and discussing it with the author.