Andrew Porter
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
“Andrew Porter is a born storyteller . . . He makes his own space instantly and invites you in. Hats off!” —Barry Hannah From a commanding new voice in fiction comes a novel as perceptive as it is generous: a portrait of an American family trying to cope in our world today, a story of choices and doubts and transgressions. The Hardings are teetering on the brink. Elson—once one of Houston’s most promising architects, who never quite...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A husband and wife hear a mysterious bump in the night. A father mourns the closeness he has lost with his son. A friendship with a married couple turns into a dangerous co-dependency. With gorgeous sensitivity, assurance, and a propulsive sense of menace, these stories center on disappearances both literal and figurative -- lives and loves that are cut short, the vanishing of one's youthful self. From San Antonio to Austin, from the clamor of a...