Drift

Description:

Victoria Patterson's beautiful stories break our hearts as they inform us. Through her characters we see the complications and trauma of not fitting in with one's surroundings, in a version of California we are rarely allowed to see. Haunting, affirming, and often comic, her stories make the reader grateful for this writer's documentation of our human alienation-and our unexpected bonds. Patterson is a gifted storyteller, a fresh, essential new voice. - Dana Johnson, author of Break Any Woman Down (Dana Johnson ).

subjects: Fiction,  Family life,  Restaurants,  Employees,  Fiction, general,  Newport beach (calif.), fiction

Places: Newport Beach (Calif.),  California