Five Tuesdays in Winter

Product Description
"Five Tuesdays in Winter moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart. I loved this book." —Ann Patchett
By the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers and Euphoria comes a masterful new collection of short stories
Lily King, one of the most "brilliant" (New York Times Book Review), "wildly talented" (Chicago Tribune), and treasured authors of contemporary fiction, returns after her recent bestselling novels with Five Tuesdays in Winter, her first book of short fiction.
Told in the intimate voices of complex, endearing characters, Five Tuesdays in Winter intriguingly subverts expectations as it explores desire, loss, jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A reclusive bookseller begins to feel the discomfort of love again. Two college roommates have a devastating middle-aged reunion. A proud old man rages powerlessly in his granddaughter's hospital room. A writer receives a visit from all the men who have tried to suppress her voice.
Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, this wide-ranging collection of ten selected stories by one of our most accomplished chroniclers of the human heart is an exciting addition to Lily King's oeuvre of acclaimed fiction.
Amazon.com Review
The best-selling author of
Euphoria and
Writers & Lovers delivers another stand-out read about the chaos of everyday life, the inexorable momentum of love, and the grief of loss. In these short stories, King mines the different stages of life—a young boy learns what it’s like to be loved by the college kids who watch him while his parents are away; a middle-aged man pines for a woman who works in his bookstore; a grandfather rages in his granddaughter’s hospital room…All deliver an emotional but rewarding portrait of humanity. It’s easy to fall in love with these characters, to hold their hopes and dreams as your own, and to root for them.
—Al Woodworth, Amazon Editor
Review
Advance Praise for Five Tuesdays in Winter
An Amazon Top Ten for November
A November Indie Next Pick
One of Entertainment Weekly’s "Must Read Books of November"
One of Good Morning America's "15 Books to Curl Up With This November"
A Most Anticipated Book of Fall by Vogue, TIME, Esquire, People, Washington Post, and LitHub
“In our time of anxiety and isolation, King writes stories to curl up in, by which I mean they afford us something rarely celebrated in literature: comfort.“—New York Times Book Review
"Fierce, funny, tender stories that demonstrate both range and emotional heft.... all of them are stunners." —
Boston Globe
"These are stories of outsiders finding their people, of new perspectives, and they place King—already one of our most poignant and moving contemporary novelists—among Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, and Mary Gaitskill as one of our great short-story writers as well." —Vogue, "Best Books to Read This Fall"
“A masterful, enchanting collection of stories illuminating the spectrum of human love—the platonic, the unrequited, the forbidden and the unconditional.” —People
"Wonderfully absorbing...All 10 of these tales build gratifyingly to moments of epiphany that never feel unearned... Long form or short, this is a writer who has mastered the art of conveying depths of human feeling in one beautiful sentence after another." —NPR
"The acclaimed author of Writers & Lovers returns with ten shimmering stories, each one a gemlike exploration of love, loss, and grief... Each masterful story reminds us that King is one of our finest cartographers of the human heart." —Esquire
"Breathlessly beautiful." —Zibby Owens, Good Morning America
"King’s collection continually breaks through stereotypes, defying expectation and not allowing the reader to pinpoint anything typical about her short stories...King honors how human life is never what we think it is, always changing and morphing. By allowing characters their full range of