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Who's Publishing What: My Mother's Boyfriends

A daughter witnesses her mother grow angels' wings. A mistress begins writing letters to her lover's wife. Thanks to a genealogy test, a middle-aged woman meets a sister she's never known, and they're very...different.

The 14 insightful, witty and often laugh-out-loud stories in Samantha Schoech’s My Mother's Boyfriends: Stories are populated by angels, earthquakes, sibling complexity, love affairs gone bad and children left to figure it out on their own. Woven throughout is an abiding sympathy for the mess-ups, bad choices and missteps humans make despite their best intentions.

Michelle Richmond, bestselling author of The Marriage Pact and The Wonder Test calls the book “a terrific read with a big San Francisco heart. … In My Mother's Boyfriends, Samantha Schoech writes with precision, grace and considerable wit on subjects ranging from the magical to the mundane. Packed with sharply observed characters and surprising sentences that masterfully turn a story inside out, this collection is as unsettling as The Big One, but so much more fun. These are voices you'll hear in your head long after you've closed the book.”

Schoech's writing has appeared in The Sun, Seventeen, The Gettysburg Review, Glimmer Train, Travel & Leisure, The New York Times and many other publications. She's been awarded numerous residencies, a Sustainable Arts Foundation grant and the inaugural Erma Bombeck | Anna Lefler Humorist-in-Residence Award. She's the founding director of Independent Bookstore Day and a staff writer at NYT Wirecutter.

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