A richly detailed, brilliantly woven debut collection about the lives and lore of one Black family

Shannon Sanderss sparkling debut brings us into the company of the Collins family and their acquaintances as they meet, bicker, compete, celebrate, worry, keep and reveal secrets, build lives and careers, and endure. Moving from Atlantic City to New York to DC, from the 1960s to the 2000s, from law students to drag performers to violinists to matriarchs,Companytells a multifaceted, multigenerational saga in thirteen stories.

Each piece inCompanyincludes a moment when a guest arrives at someones home. In The Good, Good Men, two brothers reunite to oust a deadbeat boyfriend from their mothers house. In The Everest Society, the brothers sister anxiously prepares for a home visit from a social worker before adopting a child. In Birds of Paradise, their aunt, newly promoted to university provost, navigates a minefield of microaggressions at her own welcome party. And in the haunting title story, the provosts sister finds her solitary life disrupted when her late sisters daughter comes calling.
These are stories about intimacy, societial and familial obligations, and the ways inheritances shape our fates. Buoyant, somber, sharp, and affectionate, this collection announces a remarkable new voice in fiction.

Shannon Sanders lives and works near Washington, DC. Her fiction has appeared inOne Story,Electric Literature,Joyland, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere, and was a 2020 winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers

• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Publish Date: October 03, 2023
• Pages: 208
• Dimensions: 6.34 X 9.2 X 0.6 inches | 0.97 pounds
• Language: English
• Type: Hardcover
• EAN/UPC 9781644452516
• BISAC Categories:: Literary, Short Stories (single author), African American – General