Love Stories in This Town

Praised by Bookpage as "America's best-kept literary secret", Amanda Eyre Ward delivers a debut short story collection imbued with humor, clear-eyed insight, and emotional richness.

Here a small-town librarian considers the possibility of a new future.

A recent New York widow braves the dating scene.

And—in six linked stories spanning a decade of her life—Lola Wilkerson navigates lingering questions about who she wants to be when she grows up, elopement, and motherhood.