In Every Way (First Edition, inscribed to author Chris Offutt)

Nic Brown

ISBN 10: 1619024594 / ISBN 13: 9781619024595

Published by Counterpoint, Berkeley, 2015

About this Item

First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED in the year of publication on the title page to author Chris Offutt: "For Chris [and] Melissa / miss you guys / Nic Brown / 1/26/15." Offutt is the author of "Kentucky Straight" and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs, and, in 1996, was named one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists by "Granta" magazine. He has also written for popular television shows and national publications, has been visiting faculty at numerous institutions including the Iowa Writer s Workshop, and has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and others. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 163403

Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Every Way (First Edition, inscribed to author Chris Offutt)
• Publisher: Counterpoint, Berkeley
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1619024594
• ISBN 13: 9781619024595
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Association Copy

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Synopsis

Chapel Hill college student Maria finds herself in a predicament—unexpectedly pregnant at nineteen. Still reeling from the fresh discovery of her mother’s diagnosis with cancer, Maria’s decision to give her daughter up for adoption is one that seems to be in everyone’s best interest, especially when it comes to light that the child’s father hasn’t exactly been faithful to her following the birth of her daughter. So when her mother proposes an extended trip to sleepy coastal town Beaufort—the same town that the adoptive couple Maria chose for her daughter just happens to live in—Maria jumps at the chance to escape.

Perhaps not surprisingly, Maria finds herself listless and bored soon after her arrival in Beaufort, and a summer job seems like a cure. She has kept close watch on the couple she chose to adopt her daughter—they live mere blocks away—and, as opportunity demands, she accepts a position as their nanny. Maria ingratiates herself into the family—hesitantly, at first, and then with all the confused and chaotic fervor of a mother separated from her child.

In Every Way is a heartfelt novel that brings to light the unknowing destruction that heartache can manifest, and brims with the redemptive power of new

About the Authors

Nic Brown is the author of the novel Doubles and the story collection Floodmarkers, which was selected as an Editor's Choice by The New York Times Book Review. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Harvard Review, Glimmer Train, and Epoch, among many other publications. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Columbia University, he has been the John and Renee Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi and an assistant professor at the University of Northern Colorado. Currently he is an assistant professor of English at Clemson University.

Nic Brown is the author of the novel Doubles and the story collectionFloodmarkers, which was selected as an Editor's Choice by The New York Times Book Review. His writing has appeared inThe New York Times, the Harvard Review, Glimmer Train, and Epoch, among many other publications. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Columbia University, he has been the John and Renee Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi and an assistant professor at the University of Northern Colorado. Currently he is an assistant professor of English at Clemson University.