ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019

From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter--a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and reader favorite

These twelve stories--published over the last five years in Harper's, The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney's, Playboy, and other publications--veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless lake in the dark woods of Idaho. This is a world of lost fathers and redemptive conmen, of meth tweakers on desperate odysseys and men committing suicide by fishing.

We Live in Water is a darkly comic, heartfelt collection of stories from a "ridiculously talented writer" (New York Times), "one of the freshest voices in American literature" (Dallas Morning News).

--Portland Mercury

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 02/12/2013
ISBN: 9780061926624
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.60d
Award: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award - Winner
Award: Washington State Book Award - Finalist

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2012
Publishers Weekly 12/24/2012
Booklist 01/01/2013 pg. 40
Entertainment Weekly 02/15/2013 pg. 70
Shelf Awareness 02/15/2013
New York Times Book Review 02/17/2013 pg. 22
New York Times Book Review 02/10/2013 pg. 9
People Weekly 03/11/2013 pg. 57
Entertainment Weekly 12/27/2013 pg. 14