Devotion
A Rat Story
From one of the most popular and acclaimed story writers of her generation, a single-volume short story from the author of 2017's Do Not Become Alarmed, a beautifully packaged palm-sized gift book.
“That the yellow house was thrillingly affordable might have been a warning sign, if Eleanor had known how to read it. But she’d been desperate. She was sharing a room with her four-year-old daughter, Hattie, in her parents’ house, and she had to get out.”
From the award-winning novelist and short story writer Maile Meloy, Devotion: A Rat Story is an exquisitely unsettling tale about a young single mother whose new home becomes a kind of nightmare she must resolve on her own.
Eleanor is in such a rush to move away from…
Maile Meloy is the author of the novels Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter; the short story collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (named one of the "10 Best Books of 2009" by the New York Times Book Review); and a bestselling middle-grade trilogy. Her fiction has won the Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Meloy was shortlisted for the UK's Orange Prize for Fiction and chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.
El pulpo se escapa
Maile Meloy; illustrated by Felicita Sala; translated by Yanitizia Canetti
The Octopus Escapes
Maile Meloy; illustrated by Felicita Sala
Do Not Become Alarmed
Maile Meloy
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay; Foreword by Maile Meloy
The After-Room
Maile Meloy; Illustrated by Ian Schoenherr
Devotion
Maile Meloy
The Apprentices
Maile Meloy; Illustrated by Ian Schoenherr
The Apothecary
Maile Meloy