Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | 2018 | Winner |
About This Book
A brilliantly constructed linked story collection in which the characters of each story are connected to those of others through rippling, surprising webs of relationship. Silber explores the theme of improvement—how people change, try to change, fail to change—across a range of voices and settings. Winner of both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Story Prize.
About the Author
Joan Silber is an American short fiction writer and novelist with a career spanning more than four decades. Born in Millburn, New Jersey, she studied at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of eight books of fiction, including Ideas of Heaven (2004), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize; The Size of the World (2008); Fools (2013); Improvement (2017); and Secrets of Happiness (2021). Read more →
