AMERICAN INNOVATIONS
By Rivka Galchen
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, May 6, 2014
A short-story collection from one of America's brightest young talents.
Selected Praise
“To read Rivka Galchen is to enter a wonderland where the bizarre and the mundane march in unlikely lockstep… [the reader] is left feeling oddly exhilarated after these disjointed adventures.”
— Michael Lindgren, Washington Post
About the Author
Rivka Galchen is the recipient of a William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction Writing and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, among other distinctions. She writes regularly for The New Yorker, whose editors selected her for their list of “20 Under 40” American fiction writers in 2010. Her debut novel, the critically acclaimed Atmospheric Disturbances, was published by FSG in 2008.