From the Booker Prize nominee and New York Times bestselling author of Great Circle a piercing
irresistible immersive (The New York Times) first collection of short stories exquisite in
their craft and audacious in their range. A love triangle plays out over decades on a Montana
dude ranch. A hurdler and a gymnast spend a single night together in the Olympic village.
Mistakes and mysteries weave an intangible web around an old man’s deathbed in Paris
connecting disparate destinies. On the slopes of an unfinished ski resort a young woman
searches for her vanished lover. A couple’s Romanian honeymoon goes ominously awry and in the
mesmerizing title story a former child actress breaks with her life in a Hollywood cult. In
these and other stories knockout after knockout Maggie Shipstead delivers another
extraordinary” (New York Times) work of fiction and seals her reputation as a writer of
breathtaking range and skill” (Kirkus Reviews). Rich in imagination and dazzling in its
shapeshifting style You Have a Friend in 10A excavates the complexities of love sex and life
in ways unsparing and hilarious sharp-eyed and tender.
