Elizabeth Crane
When the Messenger Is Hot: Stories
When the Messenger Is Hot: Stories
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A beloved, smart, and bold story collection surges back to life in a new print edition
Hailed as "revolutionary fiction," When the Messenger Is Hot gleefully upends the short-story form, rendering the absurdities and possibilities of modern urban life with disarming humor and keen perception as Crane weaves through grief and womanhood. The women in Elizabeth Crane's world are fierce and kind, damaged and optimistic. They are jilted lovers, absent daughters, twelve-steppers, and smart-asses, recovering from loss, addiction, or betrayal. From a woman who decides to live on the rooftop of her friend's apartment (why not?), to a writer whose identity is compromised by the actress who portrays her, to a daughter who believes her deceased mother is still alive and living at the bus depot, these characters experience love and loss in a way that is both profoundly universal and uniquely theirs.
- Publication date: 15 April 2026
- Page count: 210
- Dimensions: Height 203 mm; Width 133 mm; Thickness 20 mm
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN-13: 9798899480171
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