Memory Wall

– A Notable Book of 2010 in the New York Times. – Top 10 Fiction and Literature at Amazon. – Winner of 2010 The Story Prize. – Winner of a 2011 Pacific Northwest Book Award. – A Top 12 Book of 2010 at the Boston Globe. – A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year. Featuring four new short stories and two big novellas, Anthony’s second story collection takes place on four continents and addresses issues from Alzheimer’s in South Africa to infertility in Wyoming to fishing for endangered sturgeon in Lithuania. The title novella won the National Magazine Award for Fiction, the second story has been called “a masterpiece of observed detail and intuitive poetic sense, like DeLillo at his best,” the fourth story won an O. Henry Prize, and the fifth story won a 2011 Pushcart Prize. Can a short story collection take you to more places and introduce you to more people than a novel?