Atelier26 is proud to note that Margaret Malone's People Like You is a Staff Pick at Bookshop Santa Cruz, one of the finest independent booksellers on the west coast (see our earlier Featured Indie write-up about Bookshop Santa Cruz).
Many thanks to the Bookshop, and to bookseller Chorel, who writes:
People Like You is, first and foremost, gorgeously written. Each page of the slim collection contains treasures of language that are a joy to behold, and Malone’s writing feels effortless even in its literary intensity. The stories all concern being stuck—in less-than-perfect relationships, addiction, infertility—and the characters struggle within a powerlessness that seeps onto the reader and troubles deeply. By the end, however, the recurring thread of one set of characters comes out on the other side, and hope is restored. I loved this book.
