Clifford Garstang
The award-winning stories that make up the linked collection IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY showcase ordinary men and women in and around Rugglesville, Virginia, as they struggle to find places and identities in their families and the community.
This collection delivers on its title: each story takes us into an area—emotional and geographic—that we may not have been before. There is an impressive variety here, and Garstang's ability as a storyteller is on display each time. These characters are real, vulnerable, and always, in unique ways, brave.
—Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Amy and Isabelle and Olive Kitteridge
In an Uncharted Country is an impeccably written, sumptuously imagined, and completely enchanting book of stories, each with its own high ambitions, each successful both as prose and as story. Clifford Garstang is the real thing—a writer loaded with talent. And this book is a reminder of the delightful miracles a good story can perform in a reader's heart.
—Tim O’Brien, National Book Award-winning author of Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried
—Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Amy and Isabelle and Olive Kitteridge
In an Uncharted Country is an impeccably written, sumptuously imagined, and completely enchanting book of stories, each with its own high ambitions, each successful both as prose and as story. Clifford Garstang is the real thing—a writer loaded with talent. And this book is a reminder of the delightful miracles a good story can perform in a reader's heart.
—Tim O’Brien, National Book Award-winning author of Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried
In an Uncharted Country is a subtly braided collection of spare, taut stories that conjures a community and a way of life with respect, affection and intimacy. Clifford Garstang often captures his characters at sharp moments of loss, but it is their dogged perseverance in the face of those losses that make these figures move us.
—Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl, Equal Love, and The Ugliest House in the World and winner of the 2008 Pen/Malamud Award for Short Fiction
In an Uncharted Country
Press 53
ISBN 978-0-9824416-7-1
Press 53
ISBN 978-0-9824416-7-1
