Mavis Gallant

With a foreword by Brandon Taylor. An elegant, melancholic novella about memory, family, and the meaning of home. This is the tale of the fractured family life of Bonnie McCarthy, an American divorcée, and her daughter, Flor. Uprooted and unmoored, mother and daughter lead an itinerant existence—Venice, Cannes, and Paris as a backdrop—glamorous and dependent. When Flor attempts to flee...

In stories of astonishing compression and insight, Mavis Gallant wrote of characters severed from their home, exiles disconnected from each other and from themselves. Tracing the fault lines of the post-war world in the intimate lives of her characters, she could conjure an entire worldview in a telling gesture or passing comment. This new volume, selected and introduced by Tessa...