House Gone Quiet: Stories -- Kelsey Norris, Paperback

An eerie, irresistible debut story collection about the bonds and bounds of community and what it means to call a place home, "perfect for readers of Margaret Atwood and Carmen Maria Machado" (Booklist).

"A writer to watch if there ever was one." --Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars

"A playful, far-ranging, and unruly collection from a writer whose keen eye and joy in language leap out on every page." --C Pam Zhang, author of Land of Milk and Honey

A group of women contemplate violence after they're sent into foreign territory to make husbands of the enemy. A support network of traumatized joggers meets to discuss the bodies they've found on their runs. And a town replaces its Confederate monument with a rotating cast of local residents. Slippery but muscular, sly but electric, this stunning debut collection moves from horror to magical realism to satire with total authority. In these stories, characters build and remake their sense of home, be it with one another or within themselves.

As in the very best collections, each of these stories is a world all its own, with a novel's emotional heft and a poem's laser focus on the most achingly resonant details of its characters' lives. Captivating from start to finish, House Gone Quiet announces the arrival of a thrilling literary talent.

Author: Kelsey Norris
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 10/17/2023
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781668016312

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 08/21/2023
Booklist 09/01/2023 pg. 40
Shelf Awareness 10/20/2023

About the Author
Kelsey Norris is a writer and editor from Alabama. She earned an MFA from Vanderbilt University and has worked as a teacher in rural Namibia, a school librarian, and a bookseller. Her work has been published in Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, and Oxford American, among others. She is currently based in Washington, DC. Find more at KelseyNorris.com