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Nightjar: Stories
From the award-winning author of the national bestseller Idaho comes a "stunning collection" (Harper's Bazaar) of stories...
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From the award-winning author of the national bestseller Idaho comes a "stunning collection" (Harper's Bazaar) of stories that explore how unexpected intuitions forever alter the lives of ordinary people. "These are marvelous and unsettling stories."--Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love
"In clear and distinctive prose, Emily Ruskovich evokes the epic scope of quiet lives."--Paula Hawkins, author of A Slow Fire Burning Five years after moving into the isolated house in rural Oregon where her husband lived as a child, the protagonist of "Victor's Room" begins to doubt her husband's account of his family's past. In "Round Lake," a young woman's plans to meet a lover in Tokyo are upended when she learns a startling truth about her mother's death. In "Owl," winner of an O. Henry Award, a fur trapper reckons with the dreadful origins of his marriage after his wife is brutally injured by four adolescent boys. Haunting and psychologically provocative, and set against the vivid backdrop of the Pacific Northwest, Nightjar illuminates the secret, instinctive knowledge that lies just under the surface of our awareness.
Author: Emily Ruskovich
Publisher: Random House
Published: 07/07/2026
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.72w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780812994025
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/18/2026
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2026
About the Author
Emily Ruskovich is the author of the bestselling novel Idaho, which won the International Dublin Literary Award, only the fourth American novel ever to do so. Ruskovich is also the recipient of the Pacific Northwest Book Award and an O. Henry Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Guardian, One Story, Zoetrope, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She grew up in the Idaho panhandle, and lives now in the mountains of western Montana with her husband and their three young children. Nightjar is her second book.
"In clear and distinctive prose, Emily Ruskovich evokes the epic scope of quiet lives."--Paula Hawkins, author of A Slow Fire Burning Five years after moving into the isolated house in rural Oregon where her husband lived as a child, the protagonist of "Victor's Room" begins to doubt her husband's account of his family's past. In "Round Lake," a young woman's plans to meet a lover in Tokyo are upended when she learns a startling truth about her mother's death. In "Owl," winner of an O. Henry Award, a fur trapper reckons with the dreadful origins of his marriage after his wife is brutally injured by four adolescent boys. Haunting and psychologically provocative, and set against the vivid backdrop of the Pacific Northwest, Nightjar illuminates the secret, instinctive knowledge that lies just under the surface of our awareness.
Author: Emily Ruskovich
Publisher: Random House
Published: 07/07/2026
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.72w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780812994025
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/18/2026
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2026
About the Author
Emily Ruskovich is the author of the bestselling novel Idaho, which won the International Dublin Literary Award, only the fourth American novel ever to do so. Ruskovich is also the recipient of the Pacific Northwest Book Award and an O. Henry Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Guardian, One Story, Zoetrope, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She grew up in the Idaho panhandle, and lives now in the mountains of western Montana with her husband and their three young children. Nightjar is her second book.
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