Lake Effect by Behrman, Hillary

Lake Effect

Winner of the 2024 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Lauren GroffA debut collection about...
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Author: Hillary Behrman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Lake Effect by Behrman, Hillary

Lake Effect

$22.74

Lake Effect

$22.74
Author: Hillary Behrman
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Winner of the 2024 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Lauren Groff


A debut collection about the wild and hidden places in nature and the heart


From Seattle to Istanbul, Lake Effect, the debut short story collection by Hillary Behrman, takes you to unmapped mountain ranges, wild urban places and the outskirts of a desert outpost dissecting the many ways we love, labor and isolate ourselves from one another. In these stories characters are rarely headed where they want to be: Paula's real and dream life become indistinguishable. Oliver can't shed the hold of family lore as he negotiates his love affair with Daniel. Siblings, Alex and Marcie, are comforted and scraped raw by intimacy as they traverse the years from juvenile vandalism to a labor and delivery gone terribly wrong. Miles searches for his mother in a homeless encampment beneath a maze of freeways. These stories exist at the intersection of social isolation and fierce intimacies and call into question the limits of our well-intentioned efforts to care for each other.



Author: Hillary Behrman
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 05/12/2026
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781956046595


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2026
Booklist 04/28/2026

About the Author

Hillary Behrman's award-winning short stories have been described as deeply humane and unsettling and have been published in journals, magazines, short story dispensers, and anthologies. Her debut collection Lake Effect (Sarabande) was selected by Lauren Groff as the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Hillary lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest where she raised two kids and worked as a children's civil rights lawyer and public defender.


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