November '26 Pick

The Great Wherever

Shannon Sanders

An impulsive and heartbroken woman inherits her father’s share of a Tennessee farm that is rich in family secrets and occupied with busybody ghosts in this sweeping, bighearted portrait of...

From Our Book Lover-In-Chief

This novel about family and tradition is the perfect read to bring home for the holidays.

FROM THE AUTHOR

Shannon Sanders

Shannon Sanders is the author of the linked short story collection Company, which won the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, was named one of the best books of 2023 by Publishers Weekly and Debutiful, and was shortlisted for the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including One Story, The Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Electric Literature, and has received a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with her husband and three sons. The Great Wherever, a Reese's Book Club Pick, is her first novel.

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