Winner of the 2021 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction"e;The stories in A New Race of Men from Heaven move elegantly between the ache of loneliness and the grace of connection, however fleeting."e;-Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical CorrectionsA New Race of Men from Heaven is a collection of stories about those who struggle to live in a world inherited on their own terms, of characters who may at times wander, but are never truly lost. A lonely man on a business trip finds himself in the middle of a search party for a missing boy; a grieving widow leaves India to join family in the United States; a writer finds renewed success when an unknown imposter begins publishing under his identity. In these quiet yet deeply knowing stories of power, race, despair, and migration, A New Race of Men from Heaven offers us, above all else, stories of enduring love and of hope.

Winner of the 2021 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction

“The stories in A New Race of Men from Heaven move elegantly between the ache of loneliness and the grace of connection, however fleeting.”
—Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical Corrections

A New Race of Men from Heaven is a collection of stories about those who struggle to live in a world inherited on their own terms, of characters who may at times wander, but are never truly lost. A lonely man on a business trip finds himself in the middle of a search party for a missing boy; a grieving widow leaves India to join family in the United States; a writer finds renewed success when an unknown imposter begins publishing under his identity. In these quiet yet deeply knowing stories of power, race, despair, and migrationA New Race of Men from Heaven offers us, above all else, stories of enduring love and of hope.