Old Crimes: and Other Stories

From a New York Times bestselling author ("One of our wisest storytellers"), a story collection that is funny and tragic in equal measure, about crimes large and small (Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers).

Beloved author Jill McCorkle offers an intimate look at the moments when a person's life changes forever. A woman uses her hearing impairment as a way to guard herself from her husband's commentary. A telephone lineman strains to communicate with his family even as he feels pushed aside in a digital world. And a young couple buys a confessional booth for fun, only to discover the cost of honesty.

Moving and unforgettable, the stories in Old Crimes capture moments of great intensity, longing, and affection.

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256 pages

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jturneryamamoto
Aug 21, 2024
10/10 stars
I read Jill McCorkle because to read her is to be connected to life. The real stuff, the plodding and sorting and trying to make sense, and the random buried jewels revelatory and epiphanic in their universal wisdom. In these short stories McCorkle captures that random spark of the moment when everything in a life shifts. Masterful.

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