I'm Here

Alaskan Stories

David Nikki Crouse

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Boreal Books
02 January 2024

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

The stories in I'm Here dramatize life in the Alaskan interior, describing the difficult lives of people in Fairbanks, Alaska as they move through the long, brilliant days of summer into the deep winter months. These are characters living on the tenuous edge of things-on the economic edge caused by poverty and disillusion, on the dividing line between outsider and insider, and on the literal edge of the Alaskan wilderness. The stories in this collection move from beauty to danger and back again with decisive grace, although the lingering effect is not shock, but empathy toward people simultaneously alien and oddly familiar.

By: David Nikki Crouse
Imprint: Boreal Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781597099349
ISBN 10: 1597099341
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 02 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Nikki Crouse is author of the short story collections Copy Cats, The Man Back There, and the collection of novellas Trouble Will Save You. David’s work has received the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Mary McCarthy Prize, the Lawrence Prize, and additional short story awards, and been published in magazines such as The Kenyon Review, Witness, The Colorado Review, Agni, and The Greensboro Review. They live in Seattle, Washington, where they serve as the Milliman Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at The University of Washington-Seattle.

Reviews for I'm Here: Alaskan Stories

“The landscape that emerges in David Nikki Crouse’s I’m Here: Alaska Stories is one of rough-hewn beauty, fitted out with unforgettable characters who have gotten themselves into trouble of their own making. In these masterful stories, setting serves as a window to the human heart, reminding us that to ask, ‘Where are you from?’ is really to ask, ‘Who are you?’ An outstanding collection.” —Anthony Varallo, author of What Did You Do Today?