Carolyn Osborn's thoroughly admirable new collection, Where We Are Now, is all about those strangers we call family. Osborn's collection is wise, funny, and moving, the mature work of a skilled writer. The characters are vivid—Tennesseans, Texans, and New Mexicans, orphans and parents, aunts, and uncles, sisters and brothers. Some are rascals, others are tyrants, and all of them grow ... Read moreon you. Wherever you read Where We Are Now, you'll be transported to a front porch on a summer afternoon, where you're delighting in the company of an old friend who is telling you at last the secrets you've wanted to know." —Laura Furman, series editor, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and author, The Mother Who Stayed "[Carolyn Osborn] has earned a place as one of Texas's finest writers with prose that is precise and full of heart, and this book of Tennessee exemplifies that." —Austin American-Statesman "One of Texas's finest writers, Carolyn Osborn, is back with a collection of her award-winning stories. Osborn's stately lyricism, plain-spoken epiphanies, and hard-won truths are all on superb display. Fans of Alice Munro should have a look at this indispensable collection." —Sarah Bird, author, Above the East China Sea "[The] stories read like chapters of a novel and focus on generations within a family. The stories interweave themes, events, characters and even objects, such as a blue fence or wax fruit. Mysteries are solved, or at least revisited. Characters have interconnecting complications." —Dallas Morning News Show Less