Prayer for the Living

A Library Journal Best Book of 2021

"No matter how different each story is in context or story line, Prayer for the Living is not simply a collection of different tales, it is a deliberate assemblage of universal truths that explores what it means to seek and to live." --Los Angeles Review of Books

Playful, frightening, shocking--these stories from a writer at the height of his power will make you think, or make you laugh. Sometimes they'll make you want to look away, but they will always hold your gaze.

These are stories set in London, in Byzantium, in the ghetto, in the Andes, and in a printer's shop in Lagos. Characters include a murderer, a writer, a detective, a woman in a dream, a man in a mirror, a little girl, a prison door, and the author himself.

Each one of these twenty-four stories will make you wonder if what you see in the world can really be all there is . . .

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 02/02/2021
ISBN: 9781617758638
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.20h x 5.20w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2020 pg. 46
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2020
Publishers Weekly 11/16/2020
Library Journal 01/01/2021 pg. 71
Shelf Awareness 02/05/2021