Lori Ostlund recommends
Endpapers (2023)
Jennifer Savran Kelly
"Jennifer Savran Kelly's Endpapers immerses us in the world and mind of her engaging but struggling narrator Dawn - genderqueer, Jewish, a book conservator on a desperate search for queer role models and an artistic community. Endpapers is about the need to be fully seen - to locate oneself in the past in order to feel visible in the present. Savran Kelly is a masterful and compassionate storyteller, one who finds hope in the antidotes to hate and violence: community, art, authentic self. This is a book for all of us!"
The All-Night Sun (2020)
Diane Zinna
"The All-Night Sun is about loss, guilt, faith, friendship, and, as the title also suggests, the human ability to go on. Zinna offers everything I come to a novel hoping for—a compelling protagonist, graceful prose, first-rate storytelling, and deep compassion for her characters."
The Mother Code (2020)
Carole Stivers
"Set against a post-pandemic apocalypse, biochemist Carole Stivers’s The Mother Code offers it all: intriguingly flawed characters; compelling action; and, that most elusive of things, a fresh plot—children raised from birth by mother bots. The Mother Code asks us to reimagine the limitations of artificial intelligence and the costs of species survival, and in doing so, offers a profound meditation on motherhood and what it means to be human. Stivers is a brilliant storyteller!"
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Anthologies containing stories by Lori Ostlund
Down on the Sidewalk (2020)
Stories About Children and Childhood from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
edited by
Ethan Laughman
Simpsonistas, Vol. 1 (2018)
Tales from the Simpson Literary Project
(Simpsonistas, book 1)
edited by
Joseph Di Prisco
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