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The bittersweet, sharply observed stories in Blue in Chicago introduce British readers to Bette Howland, a forgotten great of 20th American fiction
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Portraits of working class life that are full of wry, brilliant observation and sly, joyous humour
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For fans of Lydia Davis, Alice Munro and Lucia Berlin – we sold 30k copies of A Manual for Cleaning Women (UK TCM)
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Bette Howland mysteriously disappeared from public life after winning a Macarthur Genius Grant – this is a significant rediscovery of her work
£12.99Price