Adam Haslett - You Are Not a Stranger Here

ADAM HASLETT is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared in Zoetrope All-Story, The Yale Review, BOMB magazine, and National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts series. He has been a finalist for a National Magazine Award and has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Michener/Copernicus Society of America.

He is currently a student at Yale Law School.

This book is typeset in Simoncini Garamond.

This version of Garamond was designed by Francesco Simoncini and W. Bliz between 1958 and 1961, for the Italian type foundry Simoncini.

Variations of Garamond have been a standard among book designers and printers for four centuries; nearly every manufacturer of type or typesetting equipment has produced at least one version of Garamond in the past eighty years.

The name is attributed to sixteenth-century printer, publisher, and type designer Claude Garamond, whose types were modeled on those of Venetian printers from the end of the previous century.

Some of the stories in this book have appeared, in different form, in the following publications: “Notes to My Biographer” in Zoetrope All-Story, “Devotion” in The Yale Review, “War’s End” in BOMB magazine, “The Beginnings of Grief” in The James White Review, and “Reunion” in The Alembic. The quote that appears on pages 184–185 is from the novel Affliction by Russel Banks.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Book design by Gretchen Achilles

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Haslett, Adam. You are not a stranger here / Adam Haslett. p. cm.

I. Title.

PS3608.A85 Y68 2002

813’.6—dc21

2001054839

eISBN 0-385-50962-6

Copyright (c) 2002 by Adam Haslett

All Rights Reserved

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