and some new friends who don’t quite fit the roles she expects them to play
Soon Jackie is thrown headfirst into a cutthroat TV world filled with showboating child actors
With these tantalizing clues about her mother’s secrets and the power to choose her own future for the first time
lovable strangers who are wonderful company and prove unforgettable even after the last store has closed
Wednesday's Child Format:Paperback and some new friends whoFinalist for the Story Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Esquire, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews A new collectionabout loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary lifeby the award winning, and inimitable, author of The Book of Goose. A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone shes lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her