Winner of the G.S. Chandra Prize for Short Fiction
Selected by Stewart O'Nan
Stone Skimmers opens in pristine Old Stonington, Connecticut, where a peculiar fifteen-year-old girl swims for hours each day across the town reservoir, lost to her own obsessions. The popular crowd spies from shore, mocking her strangeness, cozy in their camaraderie, until one betrays the group by befriending the outsider.
The remaining six stories in this debut collection from BkMk Press follow this splintered clique into adulthoods rife with isolation and loss, exploring the lives of those who stayed in the sheltered world of their childhoods and the challenges faced by those who chose to leave.
Also available in person at the Concord Bookshop or online at Small Press Distributors, Indiebound, Powell's, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.
bio
Jennifer Wisner Kelly grew up in Connecticut, where most of the stories in Stone Skimmers are set. Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Greensboro Review, Massachusetts Review, Beloit Fiction Journal and others. She is a graduate of Harvard University, University of Chicago Law School, and Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers. She now lives in Concord, Massachusetts, and practices law at a domestic violence advocacy nonprofit. Stone Skimmers is her debut book.
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