Kate Walbert, Author . Scribner $23 (195p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4559-3
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OUR KIND: A Novel in Stories
Kate Walbert
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Kate Walbert, Author . Scribner $24 (239p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9498-7
Walbert—2004 National Book Award nominee for Our Kind
—offers a beautiful and kaleidoscopic view of the 20th century through the eyes of several generations of women in the Townsend family. The story begins with Dorothy Townsend, a turn-o
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Kate Walbert, Author Scribner Book Company $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-86948-3
""I had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you?"" So begins this ethereal debut novel, a romantic, bittersweet tale set in the aftermath of World War II and the Korean War, by short-story writer Walbert (Where She Went), a Pushcart...
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Kate Walbert, Author Sarabande Books $19.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-889330-15-0
Moving through a series of slow-motion vignettes, Walbert's meticulous, unshakably sad collection of linked stories provides glimpses into the lives of two women: one condemned by her husband's career to wander from one middle-sized American city to
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Kate Walbert. Scribner, $25 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4767-9932-2
Footnotes enrich the text of this short, deceptively simple novel; altogether the book combines memories, regrets, doubts, hopes, fears, and mental detours including an escape from war-torn France and the past of a sugar maple tree. The result is a...
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Kate Walbert. Scribner, $22 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4767-9939-1
Walbert (A Short History of Women) compresses into this taut, powerful novel one woman’s painful recollection of her sexual relationship at age 15 with her 34-year-old high school English teacher. The summer before her sophomore year in 1978, Jo...
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Kate Walbert. Scribner, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4767-9942-1
This collection of 12 stories from Walbert (His Favorites) creates a taut, clever, and disturbing portrait of motherhood. Fathers, living with the family or apart, do not share their wives’ disquiet. In “M&M World,” a mother takes her daughters to...
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