![]() She has also written two short story collections, Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons and Bystanders. Her second novel, The Mother Next Door, will be published in October 2021. TARA LASKOWSKI’s debut suspense novel One Night Gone won the Agatha Award, Macavity Award, and the Anthony Award and was a finalist for the Lefty, the Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark, the Strand Critics, and the Library of VA Literary awards. Masih, Series Editor, The Best Small Fictions She digs into the crevices and corners of everyday lives to find the grit, the dirt, the ghosts-our deepest secrets-then finds a way to turn it all into crystal clear story moments that will enlighten her readers.” Laskowski has a natural ability to pen the banal, juxtaposed with the horror that often lurks just outside the light that spills from our windows. “In this debut that resonates, Tara Laskowski’s women and men drift through an imperfect suburbia, much like the disembodied souls who haunt her characters day and night. Jen Michalski, author of The Tide King and The Summer She Was Under Water ![]() ![]() With a deft touch, she ravels and unravels her characters’ lives so seamlessly they never know what’s coming until they’re in too deep, and what’s scarier, the reader doesn’t, either.” “Tara Laskowski’s stories are deceptively cozy: soft suburban street lights out front, but a too-deep swimming pool out back. Gary Fincke, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Prize for SORRY I WORRIED YOU Tara Laskowski’s collection will be welcomed by readers who care about witnessing the significant rather than the spectacular.” And in one story after another in this excellent collection, characters are tested when their expectations are strained and even shattered, not by the extraordinary, but more devastatingly, by the ordinary. ![]() “There’s still plenty left,” one of the characters in “ The Witness” says, referencing a cake, but the reader has been taken deep enough into the story to know that there’s no way that can be true, because there’s not enough of anything left for the main character. Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD BYSTANDERS is a bold, riveting mash-up of Hitchcockian suspense and campfire-tale chills.” “‘Short story’ and ‘thriller’ tend to be incompatible genres, but not in the hands of Tara Laskowski. ![]() From a vicious newspaper strike that rocks a small Pennsylvania community to an unpredictable road trip in the vast desert of the American West, BYSTANDERS explores the ways in which terror and uncertainty both consume and invigorate us-and yet reveal our strengths, hopes, and passions. Bound together by danger, fear, paranoia, and the bumps we all hear in the night, these potent stories illuminate the darker side of the human condition. When the unexpected happens, these bystanders-who are not always innocent-come face to face with their own choices and fates. A woman becomes obsessed with her co-worker’s murderer an investigative reporter with a nose for scandal finds his own life suddenly unraveling eerie sights in a video baby monitor haunt a new mother. Legacies of violence and tragedy haunt these thirteen stunning stories from Tara Laskowski, author of Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons. ![]()
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