Origin Stories

"Corinna Vallianatos won the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction for her collection My Escapee. She returns to the form with this new volume of stories that explore the worlds of love, longing and people trying to navigate their relationships with loved ones. In each story, Vallianatos creates a new world, with characters who pine for something, even if they don’t know what it is. This is a sometimes funny, sometimes poignant collection from a master of the form."