AntarcticaA new edition of the now iconic fiction writer Claire Keegans debut story collection featuring a fresh cover to tie in with her current bestselling trio: the Booker Prize shortlisted Small Things Like These, Foster, and So Late in the Day These stories are diamonds. Esquire First published in 1999 and proclaimed an impressive debut by William Trevor, Antarctica introduced the world to Claire Keegan, whose short fiction has since captured readers

even when its hideous atrocity is

where he and his siblings now have the opportunity to repair their strained relationships with Édouard as they determine to free him from the decrepit public nursing home where he is wasting away

and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs

and Claire Donato

Alternating between confrontation and celebration

Fun to read and minimalistically expansive

trying to explain to the future why it was that we went against scientific consensus

Months later

Bruno is an omniscient author

where he explores a different mythology

the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles

Confined to a prison cell