Emerald City

These eleven masterful storiesthe first collection from Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jennifer Egandeal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egans charactersmodels and housewives, bankers and schoolgirlsare united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations. Elegant and poignant, the stories in Emerald Citya teens discovery of his fathers secret life, a financial trader who runs into the con man who swindled himare seamless evocations of self-discovery.