Power Lines: Nine Stories

by Jessica Shattuck

About the StoriesFrom author Jessica Shattuck comes a compilation of disturbing, bizarre, and occasionally tender stories of strength and oppression. In Blueberry & Sky, it is music that carries a girl through the loss of her father. Poison follows a drug dealer's satisfying descent into Hell. In Whistle, a clown comes into power while society deteriorates into a dark circus. Pumpkin is a fairy tale style portrait of a child bride. In other stories, characters find love through sacrifice; freedom in death; and the power that comes from having nothing left to lose.

Kindle Edition

Published November 11, 2018

About the author

Jessica Shattuck is the New York Times Bestselling author of the novels Last House (forthcoming from William Morrow May 2024), The Women in the Castle, The Hazards of Good Breeding, a New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the PEN/Winship Award, and Perfect Life. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Glamour, Mother Jones, Wired, and The Believer, among others. She received her MFA from Columbia University.