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Also by Erika Krouse:

Save Me, Stranger, February 2025
Hardcover / e-Book

Save Me, Stranger
Erika Krouse

Stories

Flatiron Books
February 2025
On Sale: January 21, 2025
224 pages
ISBN: 1250240336
EAN: 9781250240330
Kindle: B0CYY5FP4Q
Hardcover / e-Book
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Humor | Literature and Fiction Literary | Contemporary

Erika Krouse's debut memoir, Tell Me Everything, was hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “lyrical, jarring, propulsive,” and the Washington Post as “mesmerizing on every page.” Now, with an electrifying new collection of stories, Save Me, Stranger, she further cements her reputation as an essential voice.

From the coldest town on earth to a sex shop in Bangkok to a haunted bed-and-breakfast in the Rockies, we meet characters at hinge moments. A runaway fights for her future while driving an ice-cream truck in gang territory; a cleaning woman investigates the teenager who died in her stead; a terminal patient in Alaska discovers new life in helping others die. This collection explores the borderlands between humor and hurt, community and self, and hope and despair, redefining what it means to survive.

Scalpel-sharp, unsparingly funny, and achingly wise, Krouse's expansive stories build to unforgettable emotional catharses, as these men and women must decide how far they are willing to go to save one another—and themselves.

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