The Bigness of the World
Stories by Lori Ostlund
~chosen a 2009 Notable Book by The Story Prize
“This is a book to remake our imaginary landscape—the kind of book I not only recommend, I advocate. Read this, I want to tell people. You need these stories. You do.”
—Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina and Trash“Each piece is sublime.”
–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
In the eleven stories in The Bigness of the World we see that wherever you are in the world, where you came from is never far away.
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News
February 2nd, 2010: A review by Laura Pryor appeared this month on NewPages.com Read More
February 2nd, 2010: My partial reading of “Talking Fowl with My Father” ran on KQED’s Writers’ Block Read More
January 27th, 2010: I was very excited to see that BIGNESS was included Read More
January 18th, 2010: Roxane Gay, the editor of PANK, just wrote and posted a Read More
December 22nd, 2009: A nice review by Matt McGregor at The Rumpus. Read More
