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Infinite Dimensions: Stories
Twelve short stories delving into the minds of characters struggling as they attempt to build their lives on shaky ground.
A female bank executive, who thinks she's placed her struggles with mental illness behind her, must make a tough decision when her former hospital roommate shows up for a job interview. A college student struggling with his philosophy assignment asks a relative for help only to be troubled by the results. A recovering alcoholic author teeters on the edge of self-sabotage as she travels to a dinner meeting with an influential editor. A woman longs to have a brain tumor so that she might get some attention . . .
These are just a few of the characters inhabiting Infinite Dimensions, from thewinner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for Please Come Back to Me. In this collection, Jessica Treadway links her stories with vulnerable characters in similar settings, featuring themes of fidelity, betrayal, and self-delusion. And throughout all of it, she reveals her stunning grasp of human psychology in all its complex forms.
Praise for Infinite Dimensions
"Jessica Treadway's intense and moving stories are connected by an intriguing thread, yet each one stands alone as a gem of intuition and empathy. This is a stellar collection." --Hilma Wolitzer, author of Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
"What an exquisite gift. . . . A masterclass in the story form, Treadway's riveting collection awakens us to the marvel of our ordinary lives, even as it demonstrates how little it takes to shatter them. . . . This book is simply astonishing." --E. J. Levy, author of The Cape Doctor and Love, in Theory
"Treadway's dynamic collection . . . intuitively explores the vulnerabilities of her characters. . . . These stories are powerful and believable." --Publishers Weekly
A female bank executive, who thinks she's placed her struggles with mental illness behind her, must make a tough decision when her former hospital roommate shows up for a job interview. A college student struggling with his philosophy assignment asks a relative for help only to be troubled by the results. A recovering alcoholic author teeters on the edge of self-sabotage as she travels to a dinner meeting with an influential editor. A woman longs to have a brain tumor so that she might get some attention . . .
These are just a few of the characters inhabiting Infinite Dimensions, from thewinner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for Please Come Back to Me. In this collection, Jessica Treadway links her stories with vulnerable characters in similar settings, featuring themes of fidelity, betrayal, and self-delusion. And throughout all of it, she reveals her stunning grasp of human psychology in all its complex forms.
Praise for Infinite Dimensions
"Jessica Treadway's intense and moving stories are connected by an intriguing thread, yet each one stands alone as a gem of intuition and empathy. This is a stellar collection." --Hilma Wolitzer, author of Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
"What an exquisite gift. . . . A masterclass in the story form, Treadway's riveting collection awakens us to the marvel of our ordinary lives, even as it demonstrates how little it takes to shatter them. . . . This book is simply astonishing." --E. J. Levy, author of The Cape Doctor and Love, in Theory
"Treadway's dynamic collection . . . intuitively explores the vulnerabilities of her characters. . . . These stories are powerful and believable." --Publishers Weekly
- GenresShort Stories
241 pages, ebook
First published June 7, 2022
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About the author
Jessica Treadway
16 books230 followersJessica Treadway is the author of four novels and three story collections, with a fourth, I FELT MY LIFE WITH BOTH MY HANDS, coming out in Spring 2026 from Cornerstone Press. Her collection PLEASE COME BACK TO ME received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction; her novels are AND GIVE YOU PEACE; LACY EYE; HOW WILL I KNOW YOU? and THE GRETCHEN QUESTION. She teaches in MFA program at Emerson College in Boston.
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July 12, 2022
Fantastic. Stories that stay with you long after you close the book.
March 16, 2023
Do any of us really know ourselves? Do we really understand why we do as we do, and how we affect the other people in our lives? Do they have any idea who we are anyway? We meet the characters in Jessica Treadway's Infinite Dimensions at the moment they make a decision that forces them to ask who they are, and if that person is the same as the one that moves around in the world. Running through the collection are a handful of reoccurring characters and a fictional short story about a Russian housewife and a probing talking sugar bowl that everyone but us gets a chance to read.
I loved this book. You should read it. Thank you to LibraryThing and Delphinium for a review copy. Sorry it took me six months to read it.
I loved this book. You should read it. Thank you to LibraryThing and Delphinium for a review copy. Sorry it took me six months to read it.
August 21, 2022
2 1/2 stars
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My review of this book can be found on my YouTube Vlog at:
https://youtu.be/qGkLOTSASyw
Enjoy!
October 24, 2022
I love Treadway's work, but this might be my favorite of all of her books. She is a master of the short story.
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