Nightjar

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From the award-winning author of the national bestseller Idaho comes a “stunning collection” ( Harper’s Bazaar ) of stories that explore how unexpected intuitions forever alter the lives of ordinary people. “These are marvelous and unsettling stories.”—Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love “In clear and distinctive prose, Emily Ruskovich evokes the epic scope of quiet lives.”—Paula Hawkins, author of A Slow Fire Burning Five years after moving into the isolated house in rural Oregon where her husband lived as a child, the protagonist of “Victor’s Room” begins to doubt her husband’s account of his family’s past. In “Round Lake,” a young woman’s plans to meet a lover in Tokyo are upended when she learns a startling truth about her mother’s death. In “Owl,” winner of an O. Henry Award, a fur trapper