What Isn't Remembered: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496229137)

Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the stories in What Isn't Remembered explore the burden, the power, and the nature of love between people who often feel misplaced and estranged from their deepest selves and the world, where they cannot find a home. The characters yearn not only to redefine themselves and rebuild their relationships but also to recover lost loves--a parent, a child, a friend, a spouse, a partner.

A young man longs for his mother's love while grieving the loss of his older brother. A mother's affair sabotages her relationship with her daughter, causing a lifelong feud between the two. A divorced man struggles to come to terms with his failed marriage and his family's genocidal past while trying to persuade his father to start cancer treatments. A high school girl feels responsible for the death of her best friend, and the guilt continues to haunt her decades later.

Evocative and lyrical, the tales in What Isn't Remembered uncover complex events and emotions, as well as the unpredictable ways in which people adapt to what happens in their lives, finding solace from the most surprising and unexpected sources.


Author: Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
ISBN-10: 1496229134
ISBN-13: 9781496229137
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2021
Pages: 266
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2021
Publishers Weekly 07/19/2021
Booklist 08/01/2021 pg. 26
Foreword 08/26/2021