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Also by Elizabeth McCracken:

Seven Stories About Tammy, October 2026
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Hero of This Book, October 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Souvenir Museum, April 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir, September 2008
Hardcover
The Giant's House: A Romance, November 2007
Paperback
Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry, October 1997
Trade Size (reprint)

THE SOUVENIR MUSEUM
By: Elizabeth McCracken

Ecco
April 2021
On Sale: April 13, 2021
256 pages
ISBN: 006297128X
EAN: 9780062971289
Kindle: B08CXYKB2D
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction | Contemporary Novella / Short Story

Award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date

In these stories, the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and fortified. A recent widower and his adult son ferry to a craggy Scottish island in search of puffins. An actress who plays a children’s game-show villainess ushers in the New Year with her deadbeat half brother. A mother, pining for her children, feasts on loaves of challah to fill the void. A new couple navigates a tightrope walk toward love. And on a trip to a Texas water park with their son, two fathers each confront a personal fear. 

With sentences that crackle and spark and showcase her trademark wit, McCracken traces how our closely held desires—for intimacy, atonement, comfort—bloom and wither against the indifferent passing of time. Her characters embark on journeys that leave them indelibly changed—and so do her readers. The Souvenir Museum showcases the talents of one of our finest contemporary writers as she tenderly takes the pulse of our collective and individual lives.

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Good Morning Texas - Buy The Book - May 31, 2021