Description
Set in Leigh Newman’s home state of Alaska, ‘Nobody Gets Out Alive’ is a collection of dazzling, courageous stories about women struggling to survive not just grizzly bears and charging moose but the raw, exhausting legacy of their marriages and families.
About the Author
Leigh Newman’s stories have appeared in Harper’s, Paris Review, One Story, Tin House, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and the Best American Short Story anthology. In 2020, her work was awarded a Pushcart Prize, an American Society of Magazine Editor’s selection for best new fiction (for work in the Paris Review), and honoured with the Paris Review’s Terry Southern Prize. Her first book, Still Points North, a memoir about growing up in Alaska was a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard Prize.
