Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781635577624)

An NPR Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Editors' Choice
A People magazine "Book of the Week"
A Minneapolis Star Tribune Holiday Pick
A Kirkus "Fully Booked" Editors Pick
An Electric Literature Best Short Story Collection of the Year
Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize

The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning "American literary treasure" (Boston Globe), ripe for rediscovery--with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout.

From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer--now ninety-one years old and at the top of her game--has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who "raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height." (Washington Post) These collected short stories--most of them originally published in magazines including Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, in the 1960s and 1970s, along with a new story that brings her early characters into the present--are evocative of an era that still resonates deeply today.

In the title story, a bystander tries to soothe a woman who seems to have cracked under the pressures of her life. And in several linked stories throughout, the relationship between the narrator and her husband unfolds in telling and often hilarious vignettes. Of their time and yet timeless, Wolitzer's stories zero in on the domestic sphere with wit, candor, grace, and an acutely observant eye. Brilliantly capturing the tensions and contradictions of daily life, Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is full of heart and insight, providing a lens into a world that was often unseen at the time, and often overlooked now--reintroducing a beloved writer to be embraced by a whole new generation of readers.

Author: Hilma Wolitzer
ISBN-10: 1635577624
ISBN-13: 9781635577624
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2021
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.82w x 0.84d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/21/2021
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2021
Booklist 07/01/2021 pg. 27

About the Author
Hilma Wolitzer is a recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. She has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, New York University, Columbia University, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her first published story appeared when she was thirty-six, and her first novel eight years later. Her many stories and novels have drawn critical praise for illuminating the dark interiors of the American home. She lives in New York City.