![]() ![]() She was the recipient of a 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Award. Stories from it appeared in the Best American Short Stories and The PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories. Her first book, a story collection entitled The Bigness of the World (University of Georgia Press, 2009), which Scribner will reissue in February 2016, received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the California Book Award for First Fiction, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. Lori Ostlund's novel, After the Parade, was published by Scribner in September 2015. Aaron Englund is one of the most lovable, quietly heroic protagonists in recent memory, and. Lori Ostlunds debut novel is an openhearted contemplation of how we grow up and move on, how we can turn our deepest wounds into our greatest strengths. ![]() Stories from it appeared in the Best American Short Stories and The PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories. Nancy Pearl KUOW After the Parade is remarkable both for the clarity and precision of Lori Ostlund's writing and her seemingly clairvoyant empathy for the misfits of the world: the different, the foreign, the gay, the bullied, the lonely. ![]() ![]()
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