Lucky Girls

Proof copy. 8vo. 225pp. Pictorial wraps with Richard Ford blurb to covers.

Winner of the 2004 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A New York Times Notable Book. Debut collection of stories, set in Southeast Asia and on the Indian subcontinent. Title story, "Lucky Girls", originally printed in the Summer issue of The New Yorker (June 18 & 25, 2001). "The Tutor", was first published in the Summer 2003 issue of Granta (#82: Life's Like That), and "Letters from the Last Bastion" in the Winter 2002–2003 issue of The Paris Review (No. 164).

"Together, these stories form a whole of heart-breaking eloquence, yet each different strand has the resonance of a far longer work... These surprising, generous stories signal the arrival of a born writer." –Observer