WINNER OF FC2's CATHERINE DOCTOROW INNOVATIVE FICTION PRIZE A
gathering of luminescent stories that illustrates how fraught and
contingent the simplest of lives can be, and the often unexpected
means available to each of us for our own salvation. The truths
revealed and the lives upended in the 13 stories that make up
Yannick Murphy's By the Time You Read This are at once singularly
foreign and uncannily familiar. A wife pens a series of suicide
notes to her family that verge on the comic, hovering between the
tyrannical and the absurd. A mother obsesses over what her child
eats. A young girl left with caretakers in New York draws on her
potent imagination with consequences in real life that are both
liberating and disastrous. In a college application essay a young
woman finally begins to make sense of the troubling vicissitudes of
her existence. A young French girl departs for America with her
reprehensible beau to find she's as much a stranger to herself
abroad as she was at home. As with her previous novels and story
collections, Murphy's keen rendering of these disparate, complex
lives illuminate in ways both quiet and startling our capacity for
deliverance and devastation through daring acts of self-invention.
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