A House Is a Body icons historian Joseph Crespino draws on

historian Joseph Crespino draws on exclusive sources to reveal how Harper Lee's father provided the central inspiration for each of her books

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Man at the Helm is a hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking portrait of childhood in an unconventional family

A House Is a Body icons historian Joseph Crespino draws onFinalist for the 2021 PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction A House Is a Body will not simply be talked about as one of the greatest short story collections of the 2020s; it will change the way all storiesshort and longare told, written, and consumed. There is nothing, no emotion, no tiny morsel of memory, no touch, that this book does not take seriously.