Wednesday's Child: Stories Short Stories Anthologies and the incalculable wages of

and the incalculable wages of war

or any car ride to a dinner party with a little something wonderful and sweet

For two centuries

” Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing

records my first name simply as Cal

Wednesday's Child: Stories Short Stories Anthologies and the incalculable wages ofFinalist for the Story Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Esquire, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews A new collectionabout loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary lifeby the award winning, and inimitable, author of The Book of Goose. A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone shes lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her