Permanent Visitors (Iowa Short Fiction Award)
“Kevin Moffett is a writer who has the very rare gift of true kindheartedness. Again and again in Permanent Visitors, he surprises and gratifies the reader with the intensity and patience of his gaze--his ability to find the complicated, the funny, the human, the dazzling, in the stuff of everyday life. The best stories in this book remind us of the real and only purpose of fiction: to recalibrate the heart.”--George Saunders“Kevin Moffett’s Permanent Visitors is a terrific book. These short stories are absurd and absolutely real at the same time, and Moffett is simply a wonderful writer. He will make you laugh out loud, and move you deeply, over and over, often in the very same sentence.”--Elizabeth McCracken, author, The Giant’s House and Niagara FallsAll Over Again