Swimming With Strangers
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
This Life She's Chosen,Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum's acclaimed debut story collection, hailed as "haunting and inspired" by the Boston Globe, introduced readers to her penetrating and delicate voice. In eight new stories,Lunstrum further explores the nuances and complexities of women's relationships with their lovers, friends, and families in a new collection. Authentic, probing, and graceful, Swimming with Strangers reveals the currents hidden beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary events.
The Sincerest Form of Flattery
by Jacquline Kolosov and Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
This new and important anthology of contemporary women writers includes the work of Kim Barnes, Mary Clearman Blew, Claire Davis, Kelly Cherry, Amina Gautier, Elizabeth Graver, Ann Harleman, Pam Houston, Jill McCorkle, Marjorie Sandor, Margot Singer, and Maura Stanton, among others. Margot Livesey, author of Eva Moves the Furniture and The Missing World, says, "The Sincerest Form of Flattery offers two singular pleasures: a wonderful selection of stories by immensely talented women writers and a privileged glimpse into the influences that have shaped these stories. This anthology is a terrific addition to the history of women's literature and a gift to all readers eager to understand and enjoy contemporary fiction. Monica Wood, author of the novel Any Bitter Thing, and story collection Earnie's Ark says, " When women get together, secrets get told. In this zesty volume of stories, each writer reveals her source, paying homage to a literary aunt or sister or grandmother. But these stories are no imitations; they have voices all their own. I predict that many of them will, in their turn, inspire a literary niece or daughter or kid sister or granddaughter. This, friends, is girl power."
This Life She's Chosen
by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
"A fine debut collection of engaging short stories, many focused on dynamics between individuals." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 18, 2005
"Lunstrum writes with a quiet confidence rare in so young an author...this collection marks an impressive debut..." -- Tacoma News Tribune, March 20, 2005
"Still and hauntingly ambiguous, these collected stories seem inspired, even inhabited, by the coastal fog of the Pacific Northwest..." -- Boston Globe, March 13, 2005
"These tales are polished tidbits...You can feel each story spreading in multiple directions, leaving you wanting more." -- Seattle Times, February 20, 2005