num_pages: 256
description: In these unforgettable stories, the acclaimed author of Imagine Me Gone  explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. The impact is at once harrowing and thrilling.An elderly inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. A bereaved boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a long-time resident of a psychiatric hospital, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn teenaged volunteer. Told with Chekhovian restraint and compassion, and conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it,  You Are Not a Stranger Here  is a triumph of storytelling.
language: English
title: You Are Not a Stranger Here
titlecomplete: You Are Not a Stranger Here
genres: Fiction, Gay, Contemporary, Anthologies, American, Queer, Literary Fiction, Literature, Short Stories, LGBT
ratings_count: 4178
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Anchor