Author(s): Elizabeth McCracken

Fiction

At the centre of Elizabeth McCracken's extraordinary stories is often a jagged space left by loss: a neighbourhood is haunted by a child's ghost, a librarian grapples with the mystery of a patron's death, a corner store manager obsesses over a missing woman, a son absconds forever with his parents' savings. But equally present are passion, charm, humour and joy: McCracken's inimitable prose captures all that is exquisite, strange and heartbreaking about our world in a way that has won her rare acclaim. In the twenty years since her first collection, Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry, was published, Elizabeth McCracken has written two extraordinary novels, The Giant's House, a National Book Award finalist, and Niagara Falls All Over Again, and the acclaimed memoir, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Now, at long last, McCracken returns to short fiction, and Thunderstruck is an electrifying addition to her extraordinary body of work.