Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories

Books

An NPR Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors' Choice A People magazine "Book of the Week" A Minneapolis Star Tribune Holiday Pick A Kirkus "Fully Booked" Editors Pick An Electric Literature Best Short Story Collection of the Year Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning "American literary treasure" (Boston Globe), ripe for rediscovery-with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer-now ninety-one years old and at the top of her game-has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who "raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height." (Washington Post) These collected short stories-most of them originally published in magazines including Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, in the 1960s and 1970s, along with a new story that brings her early characters into the present-are evocative of an era that still resonates deeply today. In the ...