Five Tuesdays in Winter

Review
Praise for Five Tuesdays in Winter:
Finalist for The Story Prize
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
A Best Book the Year at NPR and Kirkus
“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
“King returns to the page with a collection of short stories that continue to prove her prowess in all things love and human connection.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Lily King isn’t afraid of big emotional subjects: desire and grief, longing and love, growth and self-acceptance. But she eschews high drama for the immersive quiet of the everyday… Here we inhabit the worlds of authors and mothers, children and friends; we experience their lives in clear, graceful prose that swells with generous possibility. This is a book for writers and lovers, a book about storytelling itself, a book for all of us.”—Washington Post
“Like her acclaimed books Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, King’s latest finds characters longing for love and wrestling with change.”—Time
“The award-winning author of Euphoria and four other novels, speaks volumes in short form. Her new collection, Five Tuesdays in Winter, is as compelling and accomplished as anything you’re likely to read in the genre . . . Story for story, this collection is simply a knockout.”—Portland Press Herald
"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
“Lily King writes about love better than anybody.” — Jenna Bush Hager, Best Books to Read in November
"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 pain, vulnerability, and happiness, Five Tuesdays in Winter drops readers into imperfect lives, evoking awe and anger and admiration and futility, reminding us how it feels to be human." —Ploughshares
"[I]t is the exquisite attention with which King articulates all that roils inside us that secures her place in the contemporary canon." — Financial Times
"Intimate and revealing, this is an unflinchingly honest and insightful collection." — Observer
“Raw yet hopeful.” —Irish Times
“The endearing, vulnerable characters in bestselling novelist Lily King’s ten clever, charming short stories are facing up to life’s dramas and demands — broken hearts, shattered illusions, troubled parents or children — with a grace that belies the damaging emotional fallout.” — Daily Mail (UK)
“King’s observations ar