{"product_id":"alone-with-you-9781416590309","title":"Alone With You","description":"\u003cb\u003eFollowing her acclaimed, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize-nominated novel, \u003ci\u003eThe God of War\u003c\/i\u003e, Marisa Silver's extraordinary book, \u003ci\u003eAlone With You\u003c\/i\u003e, is a starkly elegant and superbly rendered collection of short stories.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarisa Silver dazzled and inspired readers with her critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe God of War \u003c\/i\u003e(a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist), praised by Richard Russo as \"a novel of great metaphorical depth and beauty.\" In this elegant, finely wrought new collection, \u003ci\u003eAlone With You, \u003c\/i\u003eSilver has created eight indelible stories that mine the complexities of modern relationships and the unexpected ways love manifests itself. Her brilliantly etched characters confront life's abrupt and unsettling changes with fear, courage, humor, and overwhelming grace. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the O. Henry Prize-winning story \"The Visitor,\" a VA hospital nurse's aide contends with a family ghost and discovers the ways in which her own past haunts her. The reticent father in \"Pond\" is confronted with a Solomonic choice that pits his love for his daughter against his feelings for her young son. In \"Night Train to Frankfurt,\" first published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003ea daughter travels to an alternative-medicine clinic in Germany in a gambit to save her mother's life. And in the title story, a woman vacations in Morocco with her family while contemplating a decision that will both ruin and liberate them all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom \"Temporary,\" where a young woman confronts the ephemeral nature of companionship, to \"Three Girls,\" in which sisters trapped in a snowstorm recognize the boundaries of childhood, the nuanced voices of \u003ci\u003eAlone With You \u003c\/i\u003ebear the hallmarks of an instant classic from a writer with unerring talent and imaginative resource. Silver has the extraordinary ability to render her fictional inhabitants instantly relatable, in all their imperfections. Her stories have the singular quality of looking in a mirror. We see at once what is familiar and what is strange. In these stirring narratives, we meet ourselves anew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarisa Silver is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eLittle Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, published in September 2016. Her other novels include \u003ci\u003eMary Coin\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and winner of the Southern California Independent Bookseller's Award. \u003ci\u003eThe God of War\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Fiction, and \u003ci\u003eNo Direction Home\u003c\/i\u003e. Her first collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eBabe in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e was named a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book of the Year and was a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year. When her second collection, \u003ci\u003eAlone With You\u003c\/i\u003e was published, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e called her \"one of California's most celebrated contemporary writers.\" Her fiction has been included in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eO. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as other anthologies. She lives in Los Angeles. For more, visit MarisaSilver.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50849875722514,"sku":"9781416590309","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_060270b6-a395-44ce-acc0-8069be60d070.jpg?v=1737403150","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/alone-with-you-9781416590309","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}