The Pelican Child Cookbooks A man with a past

A man with a past could change her future

And not all of them are asking nicely

Translated from the original French by Una Dimitrijević

including our intuition

bring nuance to charged conversations

The Pelican Child Cookbooks A man with a pastLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A razor sharp new collection of stories of visionary childhood misfits and struggling adult dreamers from this legendary writer of "perfectly indescribable fiction . . . To read Williams is to look into the abyss" (The Atlantic). "Night was best, for, as everyone knows, but does not tell, the sobbing of the earth is most audible at night." "Men are but unconscious machines and they perform their cruelties so