Peter Orner is an American writer. He is the author of two novels, two story collections and a book of essays.
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Novels
The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (2006)
Love and Shame and Love (2011)
The Gossip Columnist's Daughter (2025)
Love and Shame and Love (2011)
The Gossip Columnist's Daughter (2025)
Collections
Seep (1998)
Esther Stories (2001)
Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge (2013)
Maggie Brown & Others (2019)
Esther Stories (2001)
Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge (2013)
Maggie Brown & Others (2019)
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Books containing stories by Peter Orner
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013 (2013)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Dave Eggers
The Future Dictionary of America (2004)
edited by
Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, Eli Horowitz and Nicole Krauss
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Mothers and Dogs (2023)
Fabio Morábito
"The stories in Fabio Morabito's Mothers and Dogs, beautifully translated by Curtis Bauer, are deceptively plainspoken. That's how Morabito hooks you. The directness of the writing belies just how strange the most ordinary-seeming day can and does become. I flat-out loved this book."
Cyclorama (2022)
Adam Langer
"From the incomparable Adam Langer comes a novel firmly rooted in the present, and yet here the past not only haunts, it nearly dictates. And doesn't it? Langer has captured, in these pages, the true weight of the past. I found Cyclorama to be propulsive, generous to its flawed souls, and, finally, incredibly moving."
The Mysteries (2021)
Marisa Silver
"Even a loyal, longtime reader of Marisa Silver's outstanding previous stories and novels might be unprepared for the power and delicacy of THE MYSTERIES. I found it to be a novel of almost unbearable intimacy. As one character, Celeste, thinks: "She's never learned to trust the idea of family." For good reason, as the complexities -- and profound mysteries -- of family life form the beating heart of this stunning, uncanny novel."
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