Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life and betrayal

and betrayal

Beth doesn't realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives

but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought

in The Believer

Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life and betrayalNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the Booker Prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves and our world today. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN DIAMONSTEIN SPIELVOGEL AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Town & Country, The Rumpus, Electric