From EDGAR-AWARD WINNING author Erika Krouse, a VISCERAL, DAZZLING collection of stories set across the globe about characters desperate for salvation
тАЬComparative audiobook newbies Baker and Ewer already know how to aurally enhance KrouseтАЩs marvelously provocative fiction debut.тАЭтАФBooklist (Starred Review)
тАЬFar-ranging and visionary collection...A dozen little masterpieces of heart and longing and surprise.тАЭ тАФADAM JOHNSON
тАЬSave Me, Stranger is a book of parablesтАФsupernal and sinister. Disturbing but comforting. Read these stories with a buddy, because someone will have to scrape you off the floor.тАЭ тАФLOUISE ERDRICH
Erika Krouse's debut memoir, Tell Me Everything, was hailed by the New York Times Book Review as тАЬlyrical, jarring, propulsive,тАЭ and the Washington Post as тАЬmesmerizing on every page.тАЭ Now, with an electrifying new collection of stories, Save Me, Stranger, she further cements her reputation as an essential voice.
From the coldest town on earth to a sex shop in Bangkok to a haunted bed-and-breakfast in the Rockies, we meet characters at hinge moments. A runaway fights for her future while driving an ice-cream truck in gang territory; a cleaning woman investigates the teenager who died in her stead; a terminal patient in Alaska discovers new life in helping others die. This collection explores the borderlands between humor and hurt, community and self, and hope and despair, redefining what it means to survive.
Scalpel-sharp, unsparingly funny, and achingly wise, Krouse's expansive stories build to unforgettable emotional catharses, as these men and women must decide how far they are willing to go to save one anotherтАФand themselves.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.