Mendocino Fire

<p><strong>In this collection of richly imagined stories Elizabeth Tallent the master of short fiction delivers a diverse suite of stories about men and women confronting their vulnerabilities in times of transition and challenge.</strong></p><p>Beginning in the 1980s Elizabeth Tallent's work appeared in some of our most prestigious literary publications including <em>The New Yorker Esquire </em> and <em>Harper's.</em> Marked by its quiet power and emotional nuance her fiction garnered widespread praise.</p><p>Now Tallent returns with a new collection of diverse thematically linked and deeply powerful stories that confirm her enduring gift for capturing relationships at their moment of transformation: marriages breaking apart people haunted by memories of old love and reaching haltingly toward new futures. <em>Mendocino Fire</em> explore moments of fracture and fragmentation; it limns the wilderness of our inner psyche and brilliantly evokes the electric tension of deep emotion. In these pages Tallent explores expectations met and thwarted and our never-ending quest to avoid being alone.</p><p>With this breathtaking collection Elizabeth Tallent cements her rightful place in the literary pantheon beside her contemporaries Lorrie Moore Ann Beattie and Louise Erdrich. Visceral and surprising profound yet elemental <em>Mendocino Fire</em> is a welcome visit with a wise and familiar friend.</p>