A collection of stories from one of the New
Yorker’s “twenty young fiction writers of the new
millennium,” a series of unforgettable glimpses into
contemporary family life.
Set in the American Southwest, and featuring one previously
unpublished story, Nothing Right shows one of our best
writers working at the top of her game. Antonya Nelson’s
stories are masterpieces: poignant, hilarious, truthful
explorations of domesticity.
The artfully rendered characters in Nothing Right try to
keep themselves intact as their personal lives explode
around them. A mother and her teenage son finally find
common ground when his girlfriend becomes pregnant. A woman
leaves her husband and finds herself living with a stranger
who is getting extensive plastic surgery while her best
friend is dying of cancer. In “Or Else,” one of three short
stories nominated for a National Magazine Award for the New
Yorker, a man brings his girlfriend to a house he claims
belongs to his family, only to have his lie exposed when
one of the real owners comes home to scatter her father’s
ashes.
These stories are sure to delight longtime fans and readers
lucky enough to be just discovering Antonya Nelson.
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