Now in paperback, a masterful debut story collection named one of Publishers Weekly-s Best Books of 2023
Shannon Sanders-s sparkling debut brings us into the company of the Collins family and their acquaintances as they meet, bicker, compete, celebrate, worry, keep and reveal secrets, build lives and careers, and endure. Moving from Atlantic City to New York to DC, from the 1960s to the 2000s, from law students to drag performers to violinists to matriarchs, Company tells a multifaceted, multigenerational saga in thirteen stories.
Each piece includes a moment when a guest arrives at someone-s home. In -The Good, Good Men,- two brothers reunite to oust a -deadbeat- boyfriend from their mother-s house. In -The Everest Society,- the brothers- sister anxiously prepares for a home visit from a social worker before adopting a child. In -Birds of Paradise,- their aunt, newly promoted to university provost, navigates a minefield of microaggressions at her
