All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories 4th fiction launching Agnès on an epic

launching Agnès on an epic trajectory through fame

but also ready to look beyond the lies we sometimes tell ourselves to get by

--From the introduction

King is no ordinary housekeeper

Then I set fire to the fabled Ashram

All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories 4th fiction launching Agnès on an epicThree years after the publication of his much heralded, Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Known World, Edward P. Jones returned with an elegiac, luminous masterpiece, All Aunt Hagar's Children. In these fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, Jones resurrects the minor characters in his first award winning story collection, Lost in the City. The result is vintage Jones: powerful, magisterial tales that showcase his ability to probe the complexities and