Available May 2026
From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Committee Members, a collection of wryly funny stories about ordinary women – in all their complexity, fallibility, and humanity.
“Everything about these stories is expert.”
—Alice Elliott Dark, author of Fellowship Point and In the Gloaming
“Tender and witty, beautifully crafted, the kind of work that makes a person marvel at the long and messy experience of a life well lived. What a wonder! I deeply loved this collection.”
—Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things
“These women are all of us, rendered so insightfully as to be both painful and thrilling – and often mordantly funny. She really does it all.”
—Bridget Piekarz, The Book Cellar, Chicago
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ABOUT JULIE
Julie Schumacher’s first novel, The Body Is Water, was an ALA Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award.
She is the author of nine other books, including the national best-seller, Dear Committee Members, for which she won the Thurber Prize for American Humor — she is the first woman to have won the Thurber Prize.
Schumacher is a Regents professor of Creative Writing and English at the University of Minnesota.
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