Description: Winner of The 2024 George Garrett Fiction Prize, selected by Kaveh Akbar
Through fifty short stories each exploring a preposition, About, Above, Around sets out to prove how these half-invisible words shape inner experience. With a playful, experimental spirit, it uses "in" and "between" and "beside" to reveal the moods and movements of the inner world.Review Quotes: "About, Above, Around is thrillingly ambitious and deliciously readable, a remarkable vortex of place and mind and spirit illuminating how our lives are shaped, and how we're held within them. Mayer has given us one of the most dexterous, impressive books I've read in ages."
--Kaveh Akbar, contest judge and author of Martyr
--Kaveh Akbar