Goodnight, Beautiful Women: a powerful collection of short stories about the women of a small town in Maine

Set largely on the rural coast of Maine, and imbued with the overcast beauty of that region, these stories depict the inhabitants of small towns and even smaller domestic circles, exploring the boundaries of familial intimacy in resonant detail.

Throughout these gorgeously unclassifiable, hypnotic stories are women mad with longing, muted by heartache, mired in the slipperiness of their own memory. With breathtaking control and a rhythmic, lucid prose that is distinctly her own, Anna Noyes has produced a powerful, mesmerizing collection.