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“[Johnston’s] empathy for his troubled characters illuminates their predicaments and mistakes with a solemn, steady light.”—Kirkus Reviews “Each entry portrays the complex lives of its characters with compassion, understanding, and incisive detail. These distinctive character-driven tales will linger in readers’ minds.”—Publishers Weekly

Praise for Encounters with Unexpected Animals “[Johnston’s] empathy for his troubled characters illuminates their predicaments and mistakes with a solemn, steady light.”—Kirkus Reviews “Each entry portrays the complex lives of its characters with compassion, understanding, and incisive detail. These distinctive character-driven tales will linger in readers’ minds.”—Publishers Weekly “Deeply engrossing and hard-to-forget stories . . . Johnston pulls off the great adventure of short fiction: episodic tours of the heart.”—Booklist Praise for Bret Anthony Johnston “A cause for celebration . . . literature of the highest order.”—The New York Times “The language is luminous and the delivery almost flawless.”—The Boston Globe “Tremendously moving . . . There’s real humanity in Johnston’s writing.”—The Washington Post “Johnston’s exquisitely drawn men and women are riders on the storm . . . where the past is too easily washed away and the ocean has no memory. . . . Stunning and complex.”—Los Angeles Times “Flawless storytelling.”—John Irving, New York Times bestselling author of The Cider House Rules

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Bret Anthony Johnston is the author of the bestselling novels We Burn Daylight and Remember Me Like This, the award-winning Corpus Christi- Stories, and the editor of Naming the World- And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The Paris Review, Thrasher Magazine, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and the Sunday Times Short Story Award, he was born and raised in Texas and is the director of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.

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