Read alone, each story in Lauren Groff’s electric collection is an individual triumph: bold, agile, and packed with power. Read together, they hum in exhilarating resonance. Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region — from New England to Florida to California — these nine stories reflect and expand upon a shared theme: the ceaseless battle between humans’ dark and light angels.

Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times-bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds, and the celebrated story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won the Story Prize, the ABA Indies’ Choice Award, France’s Grand Prix de l’Héroïne, and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, where she and her husband own the independent bookstore the Lynx.

Groff will be in conversation with Danielle Evans, the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. Her work has been awarded honors including a USA Artists Fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship the PEN America Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Hurston-Wright Award, the Bridge book award, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She is an associate professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

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