Simon Van Booy, Author . Turtle Point $14.95 (155p) ISBN 978-1-9335-2705-5
A breadth of experience and setting distinguishes this somber first collection of 18 very short stories by New York-based Van Booy. "Little Birds" is narrated by a teenage boy of uncertain parentage who sketches his life with his devoted...
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Simon Van Booy, Author . Harper Perennial $13.99 (226p) ISBN 978-0-06-166147-1
Van Booy's sentimental second collection deals heavily in the neuroses and personal traumas of his characters. The longish title story follows Brunno Bonnet, an emotionally debilitated cellist with a fondness for stones who encounters Hannah, a
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Simon Van Booy. Harper Perennial, $14.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-166148-8
Van Booy, a Frank O'Connor International Short Story award winner (for Love Begins in Winter), offers a tender, earnest first novel, in which flight attendant Rebecca Baptiste moves to Athens, Greece, where she meets George Cavendish, an American...
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Simon Van Booy. Harper, $24.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-211224-8
The latest addition to Van Booy’s eclectic literary repertoire is a fractured but fine-tuned narrative revealed through the sum of its pieced-together parts. The story is based on actual events and told from the perspective of six distantly related...
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Simon Van Booy. Harper, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-240894-5
In Van Booy’s moving, redemptive new novel, a little girl grows into a talented and insightful young woman under the tutelage of her uncle, a disabled, unemployed ex-con with tremendous rage issues. The story unfolds in two timelines, the first of...
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Simon Van Booy. Penguin, $16 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-313304-9
Van Booy’s latest (after 2017’s Father’s Day) is a thoroughly satisfying story collection inspired by personal anecdotes the author has heard from strangers. The sometimes otherworldly tales showcase misery tinged with a silver lining of hope. In “Pl
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Simon Van Booy. Godine, $26.95 (230p) ISBN 978-1-56792-794-8
Van Booy’s enchanting latest (after The Presence of Absence) depicts the surprisingly touching relationship between an elderly widow and a mouse. After building a life in Australia with her late husband, retired physician Helen Cartwright returns to
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Simon Van Booy. Godine, $25.95 (280p) ISBN 978-1-56792-703-0
Van Booy (The Sadness of Beautiful Things) follows two generations of a rural Kentucky family across nearly a century in his fractured, melancholic latest. In 1933, drunk widower Clay wagers and loses his 13-year-old daughter, Carol, in a poker game.
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Simon Van Booy. Godine, $24.95 (184p) ISBN 978-1-56792-744-3
Dying and acceptance are explored in this inventive and moving story of a man with a terminal illness by Van Booy (Night Came with Many Stars). Max Little, a writer, grapples with telling his wife Hadley about his being diagnosed with an unspecified
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