Description: In her eagerly anticipated collection, Ochsner deftly examines the harrowing moments after a life or a love slips away, and discovers that the human heart can be large enough for anything.
Brief description:
GINA OCHSNER is the author of two collections of short stories, People I Wanted to Be and The Necessary Grace to Fall, both of which won the Oregon Book Award, and a novel, The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight, which was long-listed for the Orange Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She is a recipient of the Flannery O'Connor Award, the William Faulkner Prize, an NEA grant, a Guggenheim, and the Raymond Carver Prize. She lives in Oregon.
Review Quotes: "Gina Ochsner unmistakably has the Big Gift."