An Explanation for Chaos

by Julie Schumacher

A collection of stories by the author of The Body Is Water includes several award-winning pieces and highlights such selections as "Dummies," "An Explanation for Chaos," and "The Private Life of Robert Schumann."

Genres: Short Stories

165 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

JULIE SCHUMACHER grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, and graduated from Oberlin College and Cornell University, where she earned her MFA. Her first novel, The Body Is Water, was published by Soho Press in 1995 and was an ALA Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her 2014 novel, Dear Committee Members, won the Thurber Prize for American Humor; she is the first woman to have been so honored. She lives in St. Paul and is a faculty member in the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of Minnesota.

Reviews

[Lorelei · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this so much that I will immediately be searching for another book by this author. I hope it exists.

[Kristina Woods]

Beautifully written gripping snapshots of the lives of several different families living in their own form of chaos.

[Bonnie]

Short stories are really not my thing but I enjoyed this except for the title story "an explanation of chaos".

[Krista · Rating 3 out of 5]

Collection of short stories..