In Wake in the Night, we are reminded why we must push beyond easy categories and find new ways of understanding the roles we play. By employing forms that break with convention in the same spirited ways her characters do, Laura Krughoff creates a world of stunning detail that examines just what people will do when expectations stifle truth. Wake in the Night by Laura Krughoff Write The First Customer Review Filter Results Shipping Eligible for Free Shipping Expedited Shipping Available Fiction > Short Stories (single author) 'Laura Kroghoff's stories have the lyrical exuberance of a Grace Paley in their bones. 'Spanning the last century with narrators aged 10 to 100, these stories reveal women struggling to fit a definition of womanhood that cannot contain them. In the small towns of the Midwest, girls and women dream of finding voice and forcing the world to listen. Marriages occur in the 1930s for lack of other opportunities a young girl dances to Thriller for her friend's older brother a pastor remembers her childhood spent fantasizing that she is the prophet John the Baptist. Six stories span a century of rural American women. In Wake in the Night, we are reminded why we must push beyond easy categories and find new ways of understanding the roles we play.'Laura Kroghoff's stories have the lyrical exuberance of a Grace Paley in their bones.' Christopher Grimes, author of The Pornographers and Public Works: Short Fiction and a Novella By employing forms that break with convention in the same spirited ways her characters do, Laura Krughoff creates a world of stunning detail that examines just what people will do when expectations stifle truth.

They explore the complicated lives of women with a depth that a reader can’t resist being moved by. The stories are solemn but powerful, bleak but invigorating. 'Spanning the last century with narrators aged 10 to 100, these stories reveal women struggling to fit a definition of womanhood that cannot contain them. Wake in the Night is one of the strongest short-story collections I’ve read in years.

'Laura Kroghoff's stories have the lyrical exuberance of a Grace Paley in their bones.' Christopher Grimes, author of The Pornographers and Public Works: Short Fiction and a Novella