Signals: New and Selected Stories

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Signals: New and Selected Stories
384 pages; Knopf

Gautreaux’s passion for his native Louisiana bubbles like gumbo in gorgeously written stories whose characters—among them a brain-damaged priest and a steamboat cook who lives to gamble—struggle, with tenderness and grit, just to get by.

— Dotun Akintoye and Hamilton Cain