Senior Editor Anika Streitfeld at Random House just acquired Texas novelist Amanda Eyre Ward’s first short story collection Love Stories in this Town, from Michelle Tessler at Tessler Literary Agency (NA). Ward’s collection contains linked short stories about love, identity, and motherhood in a changing world.
Her Editor, Anika Streitfeld says “I have been a huge fan of Amanda’s stories since we started working together on her first novel, Sleep Toward Heaven, so I am delighted we are going to publish this collection. Like Amanda’s novels, her stories are wise, funny, and full of heart – and heartbreak. They speak to the search for love of all kinds – and to the ways that love, and life, can surprise us.”