The stories in this collection explore the burden, the power, and the nature of love between people who often feel misplaced and estranged from their deepest selves and the world, where they cannot find a home.
 

Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, a Russian Armenian émigré, has published fifty stories and received eight Pushcart nominations. Her work has appeared in Indiana Review, the Southern Review, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, and elsewhere. Gorcheva-Newberry is the winner of the 2013 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and the 2015 Tennessee Williams scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

Boys on the Moskva River
All of Me
The Heart of Things
A Lullaby for My Father
Heroes of Our Time
Simple Song #9
Nepenthe 
Beloveds
The Suicide Note
Second Person
Gene Therapy
And What Rough Beast
No Other Love
Pictures of the Snow
Champions of the World
What Isn’t Remembered
Acknowledgments