We Live in Water

<p><strong>ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019</strong><strong><br/></strong></p><p><strong>From the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Beautiful Ruins</em> 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</strong></p><p>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.</p><p><em>We Live in Water</em> is a darkly comic heartfelt collection of stories from a ridiculously talented writer (<em>New York Times</em>) one of the freshest voices in American literature (<em>Dallas Morning News</em>).<br/></p>