The Fates Will Find Their Way - Softcover

Pittard, Hannah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061996068 ISBN 13: 9780061996061

Publisher: Ecco Press, 2012

Synopsis

"A bold, wise, magical, and authentic novel about youthful infatuation and its legacy. Hannah Pittard's beautifully confident prose is sure to make readers look back on their own teenage years with fresh wonder."
--Vendela Vida, author of The Lovers

Already acclaimed for her short fiction--a McSweeney's Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award winner whose work was selected by Salman Rushdie for inclusion in 2008 Best American Short Stories' 100 Distinguished Stories--Hannah Pittard proves herself a master of long form fiction as well with her haunting, masterfully crafted debut novel, The Fates Will Find Their Way. A powerful and beautiful literary masterwork reminiscent of The Virgin Suicides, Pittard's The Fates Will Find Their Way tells the unforgettable story of a teenaged girl gone missing, and the boys she grew up with who find themselves caught in the mysterious wake of her absence for the rest of their lives.

About this title

Review:

"It's a tour de force for a young woman to follow the attitudes and changes and expectations of these several men as they grow older. ... I would recommend it to anyone."--Christopher Tilghman, author of Mason's Retreat

"A stunning novel about making up stories as we go along...[a] mesmerizing debut...with every carefully chosen word--and in this short, intense novel, each one counts--Pittard brilliantly draws us into the maturing consciousness of a group of neighborhood boys."--O, the Oprah Magazine

"[Pittard] spurs rumination on the moments in which we witness the tragedies of others and somehow manage to wrap events around ourselves."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"THE FATES WILL FIND THEIR WAY is simply tremendous--a beautiful, roving, restless and relentless exploration of a crime. It would be almost too sad to bear the implications of this story if it weren't for the warmth, hope, and kindness of its haunting prose."--Patrick Somerville, author of THE CRADLE

"Pittard gives the secret wink to the reader, because a story is only a story, but at the same time more than a story, and that's why we love to invent and why we love to listen and to be taken in. At our peril."--Ann Beattie, author of WALKS WITH MEN

"Engaging and vigorously told...I heard all sorts of echoes from other books, from Alice Sebold's THE LOVELY BONES and some of Joyce Carol Oates' stories and novels...Pittard's excellent first novel satisfies this demand in spades."--Chicago Tribune

"An emotionally taut and elegantly written novel."--Los Angeles Times

"A wistful novel about how little we know of one another, but how eager we are to tape together a collage of rumors, assumptions and fantasies to answer questions we're too young, too cowardly or too polite to ask.... Chilling and touching...harrowingly wise about the melancholy process of growing up."--Washington Post

"THE FATES WILL FIND THEIR WAY is a bold, wise, magical, and authentic novel about youthful infatuation and its legacy. Hannah Pittard's beautifully confident prose is sure to make readers look back on their own teenage years with fresh wonder."--Vendela Vida, author of THE LOVERS

"An eerie, arresting novel...a bold, imaginative, deeply psychological debut novel, a mystery in the finest sense of the word."--Minneapolis Star Tribune

Book Description:

A beautifully crafted literary debut told in haunting prose and reminiscent of Jeffrey Eugenides' modern classic The Virgin Suicides.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0061996068
• ISBN 13: 9780061996061
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256