The Pelican Child Cookbooks both in front of and

both in front of and behind the cameras

Proceed with caution

Translated from the original French by Una Dimitrijević

a place where their growing family can thrive

Miskit is suspicious

The Pelican Child Cookbooks both in front of andLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A razor sharp new collection of stories of visionary childhood misfits and struggling adult dreamers from this legendary writer of "perfectly indescribable fiction . . . To read Williams is to look into the abyss" (The Atlantic). "Night was best, for, as everyone knows, but does not tell, the sobbing of the earth is most audible at night." "Men are but unconscious machines and they perform their cruelties so