{"product_id":"jane-of-hearts-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"Jane of Hearts and Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatharine Weber\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A scintillating collection of short stories and a novella that encompass pathos and hilarity and range from breathtakingly succinct yet richly faceted tales, like the diamonds that figure in several unexpectedly connected stories, to longer \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eworks iridescent with tangible and psychological detail.\"―\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"In elegant prose, Weber offers intimate views on her characters' inner lives. At its best, this offers an ode to the universality of change.\"―\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Weber's genius in these startling, haunting stories is to find the momentary connections in things that make up or derail a life, be it an artichoke and a dead woman's earrings, or a plant and a hospice worker. Written in prose as dazzling and finecrafted as diamonds, Weber's stories show us ordinary people in extraordinary moments, doing what the best literature does―they make us look at our own world differently.\"―Caroline Leavitt, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePictures of You\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCruel Beautiful World\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAt the heart of every story in this collection, Katharine Weber has located a compelling character \u003ci\u003ein medias res\u003c\/i\u003e, at a moment when situation, desire, and identity are intersecting and sometimes colliding. Children go door to door selling poison mushrooms. An elderly New Yorker on the brink of losing her freedom bolts for one last dignified adventure. A girl is employed to babysit a sleeping baby she is forbidden to see. In the title novella, lonely children roaming their Connecticut neighborhood discover a forgotten bomb shelter, which they make their secret headquarters. \u003ci\u003eJane of Hearts\u003c\/i\u003e offers Katharine Weber's readers a lively assortment of her short fiction, each story a precise and nuanced investigation of its moments. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With eloquence, wit and wisdom, Katharine Weber transports her readers from Madagascar to Connecticut, from jury duty to a feast of poisonous mushrooms. In the best way, I never knew what I would find on the next page in this wonderfully engaging, vividly peopled collection.\"―\u003cb\u003eMargot Livesey, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Boy in the Field\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Hidden Machinery\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Katharine Weber's trademark intelligence and wit are on full, dazzling display in her not-to-be missed, career-spanning collection, . Secret family histories, childhood games turned dangerous, moments imbued with fierce, unexpected consequences, inform these compulsively readable, razor-sharp stories. A triumph.\"―\u003cb\u003eKate Walbert, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe Was Like That\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHis Favorites\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Weber's sly, elegant stories unfurl to reveal themselves from inside out, startlingly beautiful, sharp-edged, funny, and moving. This collection is sheer pleasure to read.\"―\u003cb\u003eKate Christensen, PEN\/Faulkner award-winning author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Great Man\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Last Cruise\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Whether she's turning her attention to the miniature tragedy of a group of curious neighborhood girls at play among dangerous chemicals, uncovering new details of the grand harrowing European Jewish experience in WWII, or simply giving us a glimpse of a fraught relationship on a trip to Geneva, Katharine Weber's linked stories are always full of her signature verve, subtle wit and precision. This is an impressive collection of interwoven stories, marked by breadth, fierce intelligence and sheer storytelling talent.\"―\u003cb\u003eDaniel Torday, author of \u003ci\u003eBoomer1\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Flight of Poxl West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatharine Weber is the author of six acclaimed novels―\u003ci\u003eStill Life with Monkey, True Confections, Triangle, The Little Women, The Music Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eObjects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear\u003c\/i\u003e―and a memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities\u003c\/i\u003e. 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