About The Women by Sommer Schafer
A women-only book club takes a bloody turn. A new mother and her toddler find themselves lost in the Alaskan wilderness until coming upon a mysterious cabin in the woods. Joyce’s obsession with pruning a neighborhood tea tree leads to an unexpected end. Mary falls in love with a machine built exclusively for her newborn. Magical, surreal, macabre, and tender, THE WOMEN is a collection of 17 short stories that bring us into the lives of 17 different women. How far will each woman go in order to face the hands they’ve been dealt?
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Author Bio:
Sommer Schafer is Senior Editor of The Forge Literary Magazine and widely published, including a Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories 2019. She lives in Northern California on Coast Miwok land with her family, a rescue dove, and a bearded dragon. When she’s not trail running through the woods, she’s working at the county library, hanging out with her husband and two teenagers, and reading anything she can get her hands on. THE WOMEN is her first book.