AMERICAN INNOVATIONS, the first story collection fromRivka Galchen, one ofThe New Yorker’s20 Best Writers under 40, has delivered. One of the stories contained in this volume will appear in next week New Yorker issue.

In one of the intensely imaginative stories,a narrator’s furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to promise to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a third, the petty details around a property transaction detail the complicated pains and loves of a family.

Alternately realistic, fantastical, witty, and lyrical, these are all deeply emotional tales, written in exuberant, pitch-perfect prose and shadowed by the darkly marvelous and the marvelously uneasy. Whether exploring the tensions in a mother-daughter relationship or the finer points of time travel, Galchen takes great risks, proving that she is a writer like none other today.

Rivka is currently working at her second novel.

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