{"product_id":"brawler-isbn-9780593418420","title":"Brawler","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Groff is one of this country’s most successful and versatile literary figures.”—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Required reading.”—\u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A knockout.”—\u003ci\u003eMinnesota Star Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Wallops its reader with ferocious honesty and searing emotional force.”—\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA stunning, fierce collection from a master of the short story and one of the most important writers of our time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRead 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In every human there is both an animal and a god wrestling unto death,“ one character tells us. Among those we see caught in this match are a young woman suddenly responsible for her disabled sibling, a hot-tempered high school swimmer in need of an adult, a mother blinded by the loss of her family, and a banking scion endowed with a different kind of inheritance. Motivated by love, impeded by the double edges of other peoples’ good intentions, they try to do the right thing for as long as they can.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrecise, surprising, and provocative, anchored by profound insight into human nature, \u003ci\u003eBrawler \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the repeated, sometimes heartbreaking turning points between love and fear, compassion and violence, reason and instinct, altruism and what it takes to survive.\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eBrawler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Groff is one of this country’s most successful and versatile literary figures... [These stories] seem like a homecoming, and honestly, something of a relief. If they have a shared theme, it is how the bedrock of family crumbles, and its members are forced to shift into new formations, occasionally tectonic.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Few collections have an opener as powerful and instantly classic as \u003ci\u003eBrawler\u003c\/i\u003e’s\u003ci\u003e...Brawler \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures a towering talent and follows protagonists caught in the undertow of their messiest emotions...instead of easy epiphanies, [Groff] offers glimpses of acute clarity, meaning or happiness. They will not repeat; but they are enough to carry you through a life.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Lauren Groff is one of our most acclaimed writers of fiction and one of our most dedicated and generous literary citizens...[\u003ci\u003eBrawler] \u003c\/i\u003ewallops its reader with ferocious honesty and searing emotional force even as it demonstrates artistic delicacy, intellectual subtlety, and ethical nuance.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Lauren Groff is required reading: Her newest stories prove she’s among the best in the game.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—LA Times \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Anyone who picks up the book and idly starts reading the first story will be unable to stop without finishing it...Each of the nine rich tales has enough character detail and intrigue to fill a full-length novel...Groff also is hilarious, provocative and plenty of other adjectives. Long story short: \u003ci\u003eBrawler \u003c\/i\u003eis a knockout.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMinnesota Star Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Her stories wrap intricate emotional nets around the reader...\u003ci\u003eBrawler \u003c\/i\u003eis both addictive and painful, the perfect size for a short story collection, each tale its own saturated, heavy narrative, weighted down with hope and hurt.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In the coiling dread and frank feminism of her work, this incandescent author makes clear with her newest fiction why she won the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. This audacious collection surprises readers with the vivid lives few of us notice.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus \u003c\/i\u003e(starred)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A gorgeous collection about families transformed by desperate circumstances…Groff sketches her characters with scalpel-like precision…Each of these heartbreaking tales will linger in the reader’s mind.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thrillingly complex, wickedly strong girls and women populate the worlds of Groff's third story collection. In total command of her characters' nuances and the gray space they find themselves in, Groff shares brief, cryptic yet revealing notes about each story at book's end, for the cherry on top.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eFlorida\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Groff is a great storyteller. . . . \u003ci\u003eFlorida \u003c\/i\u003eis restorative fiction for these urgent times. Its final gestures, even the most ominous . . . lean toward love and the promise of good people, in not just this state but the world.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Groff's language is, as always, gorgeous and precise. Her ability to map the inner contours of characters who seem to exist entirely in extremis—and, almost entirely, within a fragile shell of feigned competence and normalcy—is remarkable.” —\u003cb\u003eNPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Groff’s incomparable prose pulsates with peril; its beauty, like that of the titular state itself, lies in a certain wild lushness.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Groff’s writing is marvelous, her insights keen, each story a glittering, encrusted treasure hauled from the deep.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Groff] is one of the best writers in the United States, and her prizewinning stories reverberate long after they are read. ” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Groff \u003c\/b\u003eis a three-time National Book Award finalist and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of five novels, including \u003ci\u003eFates and Furies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMatrix\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Vaster Wilds\u003c\/i\u003e, and two other story collections, including \u003ci\u003eFlorida\u003c\/i\u003e. 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