Natural History

Stories

Author Andrea Barrett

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Finalist for the 2022 Story Prize
Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Named Among the Best Fiction of 2022 by BookPage and Kirkus Reviews

A masterful new collection of interconnected stories, from the renowned National Book Award–winning author.

In Natural History, Andrea Barrett completes the beautiful arc of intertwined lives of a family of scientists, teachers, and innovators that she has been weaving through multiple books since her National Book Award–winning collection, Ship Fever. The six exquisite stories in Natural History are set largely in a small community in central New York state and portray some of her most beloved characters, spanning the decades between the Civil War to the present day. In “Henrietta and Her Moths,” a woman tends to…

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September 5, 2023

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Andrea Barrett, winner of the National Book Award in Fiction in 1996 for Ship Fever, has also received a Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and an honorary degree from Union College. She teaches in the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College. The author of four previous novels, Barrett lives in Rochester, New York.