The Goodbye Process : Stories

In this arresting debut collection of short stories, Mary Jones uses her distinctive, exacting voice to examine the painful ways we say goodbye. With satisfying depth and mouth-dropping details, these stories will push you out of your comfort zone and ignite intense emotions surrounding love and loss. Grief unites us all, as Mary's stories illustrate and exhume. A woman camps out on the porch of an ex-lover who has barricaded himself inside his house; a fatherless preteen girl gets caught shoplifting and then finds herself in grave danger; a widow moves back to her hometown and befriends a college student; a Los Angeles real estate agent falls for a woman who helps him detach from years of dramatic plastic surgery; a man hires a professional mourner to ensure his wife's funeral is a success. The stories gathered in this collection are dark, stunning, original, and beautifully rendered. The Goodbye Process will pack a punch, just the way grief does--knocking us off our feet.

Author: Mary Jones

Publisher: Zibby Books

Publication Date: Jul 30, 2024

Number of Pages: NA pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1958506621

ISBN-13: 9781958506622