Life Drawing (Preorder)

Louis Harnett O’Meara, 2026
$22


Forthcoming December 2026

A young man in Berlin finds the girl of his fantasies; an Irish peddler sells an old woman a picture of her own home; a librarian in Boston seeks the right gift for the man she admires. These five stories depict characters from different ages, places, and backgrounds as they try to make sense of how to share their lives with others. They are studies of the quiet tragedies, cruel comedies, and dubious loves of lives broadly and thinly lived.

“An affecting and powerful quintet of stories, linked by a timeless, tragic theme: if you fail to take life seriously, if you live dishonestly, life will punish you, relentlessly.”
 — David Shields